[Proj] Migrate to github?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Fri Mar 13 11:43:35 PDT 2015


Howard,

Sounds good to me!

Best regards,
Frank

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
> All,
>
> In my role as self-appointed maintainer, I became quickly aware that my brain had been poisoned by github's ticket and development workflow. I found myself rather hamstrung without it in the context of doing the proj 4.9.1 release.
>
> I would like to migrate the proj Trac and Subversion instances, including all tickets, revision control, branches, and tags, to a github repository at http://github.com/OSGeo/proj and decommission them once there's sign-off that the migration looks good.
>
> Unless I hear significant pushback *against* doing this, consider this message your notice that the effort is ongoing, and I will notify once a test migration is complete for people to look around. At that time I will then motion to switch over once folks are satisfied.
>
> Note that this same migration was done in the past by Thomas Bonfort for MapServer, with a much larger Trac instance (which itself was preserved from a Bugzilla instance). It's annoying to have software survive multiple generations of bug tracking and revision control software, but I guess it's a good thing that the software is useful enough to warrant the migration in the first place.
>
> Howard
>
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