Hi PSC members (and others),<div><br></div><div>It has been a long time since we started to migrate pgRouting to OSGeo server, and so far we could get</div><div><ul><li>Mailing lists</li><li>Download directory</li></ul><div>
But Subversion repository setup is stuck now for months, and even if it was promised to me several times, it didn't happen yet. (Several emails over the months haven't had any success)</div></div><div>I feel we reached a point, where waiting for the SVN repository is blocking further development and we're losing possible contributions from the community (probably we already did). </div>
<div><br></div><div>So I would like to propose to not wait any longer and move to some other hosting provider for the pgRouting source code (and osm2pgRouting). </div><div>There are many options: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I think it makes sense to chose one, that developers are familiar with, for example</div><div><ul><li>Sourceforge</li><li>Github</li><li>Gitourious</li><li>Launchpad</li><li>Bitbucket</li><li>Google Code</li>
</ul><div>Personally I would be in favor to switch from Subversion to a distributed revision control such as Git or Mercurial, because it would make it easier to contribute code and would hopefully increase the number of developers.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding TRAC I would prefer to</div><div><ul><li>Close the current Forum/Discussion, make the current content a static website and make it available on OSGeo download server</li><li>Use GIS Stackexchange instead of the forum for those, who don't like mailing lists: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/">http://gis.stackexchange.com/</a></li>
<li>Use the ticket/bug tracker of the source code hosting provider</li><li>Write documentation/website content with Sphinx/ReST and host it in the repository (we can then create HTML and upload it to a server, ie. Georepublic server, accessible under <a href="http://pgrouting.org">pgrouting.org</a>)</li>
</ul><div>Any opinions?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, please vote for the following questions:</div><div><ol><li>Stop waiting for SVN migration to OSGeo server and chose an alternative revision control hosting?</li>
<li>Switch from Subversion to distributed revision control (DVCS)?</li><li>Which DVCS would you prefer?</li><li>Shutdown current TRAC as described above?</li></ol><div>Best regards,</div></div><div>Daniel<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">PS: probably in a few days Chris will tell me that he setup pgRouting SVN repository on OSGEo servers ;-)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>
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