On Monday, July 13, 2015, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 07/13/2015 04:00 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> Apache-extras is a service managed by ComDev. Though we never provided >> any commitment to support it. >> >> However, many extras (most?) are used by ASF PMCs and they need a >> solution to the fact that Google Code is closing down. We are doing this >> with infra resources for that reason (as a director you've seen the >> repeated requests from some PMCs to find a resolution, you've also seen the >> responses to those requests). >> >> It's easier for Infra to move all projects rather than some projects. >> Hence the current approach. Though you are correct, as noted on a different >> thread, that the assumption all projects on extras belong to PMCs is likely >> flawed. Unfortunately there is no easy way of identifying which are PMC >> owned and which are not. >> >> So here's an alternative approach. We (ComDev) send out a mail to PMCs >> indicating that they need to great a ComDev issue if they want their >> project moving. If they don't sign up they don't get moved. >> >> We (ComDev) provide infra with a reduced list of projects to move and >> they run the scripts for those projects. >> > > I think I must have been watching all of these conversations (I know it's > been going for more than a year) with a certain understanding that we were > going to push everything onto volunteer labor rather than Infra. So, mea > culpa for not paying close enough attention. Yes, I know that this has been > discussed for *ages*. > > I figured that what we, the ASF, were doing for these projects was > negotiating with SF for the service/resources/whatever, not doing the > actual migration. I figured either the projects themselves would do that > work, or Roberto and his team at SF would do it.
that was my understanding as well. AOO moved a while ago. We should notify the PMCs how to move, and leave the rest to volunteer time. rgds jan i > > --Rich > > > >> >> >> Sent from my Windows Phone >> ________________________________ >> From: Rich Bowen<mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com> >> Sent: 7/13/2015 12:47 PM >> To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> >> Subject: Re: Moving Apache Extras >> >> >> >> On 07/09/2015 02:42 PM, Daniel Gruno 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: >>> >> >> Wait what? >> >> Are you doing this because you're a nice person, or because it's an >> Infra Assignment? >> >> I ask because it seems a really iffy precedent giving paid infra support >> to non-ASF projects. Tell me you're doing this for scotch rather than >> for money, and I'll back off. I know you do wear many different hats. >> >> --Rich >> >> >>> - 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. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >> >> > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
