On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Jeff Forcier <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Either tonight or tomorrow I plan to pull the trigger on migrating our
> Redmine instance at
http://code.fabfile.org over to
>
https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues . What this means for you:
>
> * Once the script is done, Github will be the place to open new issues
> or pull requests, and
code.fabfile.org will be read-only:
> * No more having to point people back over to code.fabfile!
> * We'll be able to take advantage of Github's collaboration
> features as well, though it may take a little time to arrive at best
> practices.
> * Package maintainers will need to switch their source packages to
> pull from the appropriate Github tgz-generation URLs for both past and
> future milestones.
> * I may try to set up HTTP redirects for the old Redmine file
> download URLs if it's feasible, but anybody who is still actively
> maintaining should switch to the Github URLs anyways.
>
>
> This is the specific action plan:
>
> * The Redmine instance will be made read-only in some fashion prior to
> the migration, probably by disabling all accounts and account
> creation;
> * All existing issues/pull requests on Github will be removed (they
> should all exist on Redmine at this point, so no data loss);
> * The migration script will run, copying issues and their comments
> (and any textual attachments) to Github Issues. All useful metadata
> (milestone, category, tracker, etc) will be copied as labels;
> * The Redmine instance will remain active & read-only until it is
> replaced with redirects from e.g.
>
http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/222 to
>
https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/222 ;
>
>
> Anybody looking for history on the switch can check out the
> above-mentioned issue #222, it contains rationales and links to
> related discussions. The tl;dr is at the top of that ticket's
> description block.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Forcier
> Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer
>
http://bitprophet.org
>
--
Jeff Forcier
Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer
http://bitprophet.org
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