Okay, that's fine. Thanks. I'm sure I can find stuff in the archives. I just wasn't sure what the final reasoning was. NBD.
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Ross Gardler <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > That discussion has been had a number of times. We're not opening it again > since we are ready to pull the trigger on SF. The archives have the > discussion (sorry, not got the time to search them and find links right now). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher [mailto:ctubb...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 12:52 PM > To: ComDev > Subject: Re: Moving Apache Extras > > It seems to me that moving to GitHub would be easier, since Google put a > "Export to GitHub" button on each project page, and I've used it and it works > well. > Perhaps I missed it, but was there a reason why SourceForge was chosen over > GitHub? (Just curious... since I have no personal stake in this > endeavor.) > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hiya folks, >> >> I'm the "lucky person" in charge of moving the some 350 projects from >> Google Code to SourceForge. >> This will happen over the course of next week, save some freak >> accident occurs, however, SourceForge is not Google Code, and as such, >> there are a few things we need to consider: >> >> - I will create an admin account that will initially own all the >> imported projects. This can/will be shared with the ComDev PMC. >> - Someone (not me!!) will have to step up and help out with delegating >> read/write access to the new repos on SourceForge. >> - Preferably, someone will have to go through the giant list of >> projects, and select those we'll import. This is not strictly >> necessary, but if someone volunteers for this, that'd be super duper. >> >> The most important thing is that we are able to delegate write access >> to the devs (and do so!), so this does not simply become a big data >> dump that just sits there. If any of you are interested in taking on >> that task (preferably more than one person), please do speak up :) >> >> With regards, >> Daniel.
