Hello, Alan; On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:55:30AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... > I would thus like to move the project from SourceForge to Savannah. May > I take it this would be acceptable and welcomed?
Yes; it's nice to see software migrating to more user-respecting forges, https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html > Looking at the Savannah site, there are a couple of things which confuse > me. I couldn't find a definition of what is meant by "group". It seems > to mean the name of a project (in my case, "CC Mode") and/or the Linux > file-system group name under which project files will be stored > ("cc-mode"). The "project" is a type of group; other group types hosted on Savannah include GNU User Groups, www.gnu.org portions and www.gnu.org translation teams. > Also, there is on the page "register" an opportunity to give a *.tar.gz > URL or upload a file to Savannah. What is this tarball? Is it a > tarball of an existing repository, or just of the project's source > files? It's a release of source files; we use it to see if the registered package follows our hosting requirements. > I would also like to preserve the project's mailing list, if possible. > I have a copy of posts going back to 2001 on my own machine, I don't > know if it will be possible to extract a more complete copy from > SourceForge. Do you see any problems, here? Currently, the main > mailing address for this list is bug-cc-m...@gnu.org, and the gnu server > forwards the mail to the SourceForge address. I foresee this address > remaining the main address for the list, relocated back to Savannah. I think you can use your old mailing list or migrate to lists.gnu.org. > What about old releases? How much point is there, trying to preserve > these? SourceForge still has releases going back around 20 years, to > release 5.26. Current (three years old) is 5.35. They do not take up > much space (around 700 kByte each). The older releases must be presumed > lost. You'll be able to upload them to Savannah download area.
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