[GRASS-PSC] Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 Migration from CVS to SVN

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:09:33PM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2007 09:58, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Jan-Oliver Wagner-2 wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 September 2007 14:06, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > >> Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote on 09/27/2007 08:37 PM:
> > >> > one of the Admins of the GForge grass project can switch on other
> > >> > modules, among them SCM (Source Code Management, == SVN), a wiki (I
> > >> > don't like this implementation) and other stuff.

Don't you like the GForge Wiki or Wiki in general?


> > >> Currently I don't know who is admin (AFAIK Maciej, anyone else?).
> > >> I have no list of available modules (this is what I am asking for...).
> > >
> > > see top right box of http://wald.intevation.org/projects/grass
> >
> > Not sure what to see there...
> 
> the names of the project admins and developers.
> The project admins is what you were looking for.

Yes, right:
  Bernhard Reiter
  Maciej Sieczka


> > Jan-Oliver Wagner-2 wrote:
> > >> Ah, this means that there is a link between SVN and GForge? To visualize
> > >> patches and such? I am honestly asking since I don't know (and cannot
> > >> spend more time on searching around).
> > >
> > > E.g. look at http://wald.intevation.org/scm/?group_id=27
> > > which is the SVN for deegree project.
> > > Click on browse and you enter viewcvs 1.0. Welcome home ;-)
> >
> > OK, fine (not enabled for GRASS apparently).
> 
> up to project admins to do so.

OK - I am none, so I cannot do anything.


> > Jan-Oliver Wagner-2 wrote:
> > > Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > > Jan, for several *months* we try to complete the list to make a
> > > > *reasonable* comparison. Again: concrete input is welcome. You as GForge
> > > > developer will know much more; we (a set of GRASS developers) are
> > > > lacking this knowledge.
> > >
> > > I am not a GForge developer. I am a GForge *user*. And a Sourceforge
> > > user. And a user of Savannah and of trac. ;-)
> > > BTW, GForge is a Sourceforge fork.
> > >
> > > Doing a comparison of such platforms is far beyond scope I guess.
> > > Perhaps it is better to collect some needs of the developers and
> > > simply select a platform that suits them? I guess that at the end of the
> > > day
> > > any platform will do the job good enough of managing SVN.
> >
> > Not entirely sure if any platform will do the job good enough. We clearly
> > see that GForge for GRASS is way under-used.
> 
> I guess you mean the bug tracker is underused?

Yes.
Numerous active developers are not even registered there
(see 'Developers:' on the page mentioned above).

Additionally, there are several useful features either missing in GForge
or not activated (I cannot judge that since still I don't know what's
available and possible). But I feel that we start to go in circles.

Markus

 
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