Thread: killing gborg - devision of labor
Ok folks,
I've gotten in contact with some of the project admins and have some projects
that are ready to move and want to come up with a game plan for moving people
across. I'm not overly familiar with some of the parts of the system, so I
am hoping that someone else can jump in for certain parts. Here's a recap of
what I think needs to happen for moving a project:
1. create a new project on pgfoundry and assign that project to the proper
owner. I can submit these requests and include the proper info, though
someone will have to approve it.
2. Move CVS - I think this is a simple move from one machine to the other
right? ISTM this has been done before for other projects, is this something
I can just ask to have done and someone (Marc? Dave?) can make it happen? :-)
3. Mailing lists - AIUI this is a bit tricker. Right now we don't have any
way to quietly migrate mailing lists right? For a project to move it's list,
we create a new one on the pgfoundry site, and then load in a list of current
subscribers from gborg... does that sound right, or is there some other
method? Again this is an area I'm not familiar with someone whom I can
coordinate this through would be great.
4. Moving bugs and tracker items - I know folks have talked about using
scripts to do this in the past, do such scripts exists? If not I can look
into writing one up... though if someone knows that to be a dead-end we can
probably brute force it by recreating at least the open items for each
project (assuming the projects are willing to help on this)
5. documentation / downloads - For projects that have a release history, I am
guessing there is no way to magically move these over; they are something
that will have to be done manually? If that's not the case please lmk,
otherwise I'll let project owners know thatsthe case.
Please let me know if there are other items I am overlooking. Since I have a
couple of projects ready to move, I'd like to start pushing these through
sooner rather than later, since it will take some effort to coordinate
things. TIA.
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
Robert Treat wrote: > Ok folks, > > I've gotten in contact with some of the project admins and have some projects > that are ready to move and want to come up with a game plan for moving people > across. I'm not overly familiar with some of the parts of the system, so I > am hoping that someone else can jump in for certain parts. Here's a recap of > what I think needs to happen for moving a project: > > 1. create a new project on pgfoundry and assign that project to the proper > owner. I can submit these requests and include the proper info, though > someone will have to approve it. the approval is handled by the gforge-admin team - so just submit them and they will get approved. > > 2. Move CVS - I think this is a simple move from one machine to the other > right? ISTM this has been done before for other projects, is this something > I can just ask to have done and someone (Marc? Dave?) can make it happen? :-) > > 3. Mailing lists - AIUI this is a bit tricker. Right now we don't have any > way to quietly migrate mailing lists right? For a project to move it's list, > we create a new one on the pgfoundry site, and then load in a list of current > subscribers from gborg... does that sound right, or is there some other > method? Again this is an area I'm not familiar with someone whom I can > coordinate this through would be great. > > 4. Moving bugs and tracker items - I know folks have talked about using > scripts to do this in the past, do such scripts exists? If not I can look > into writing one up... though if someone knows that to be a dead-end we can > probably brute force it by recreating at least the open items for each > project (assuming the projects are willing to help on this) http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=1000013 has some scripts that might be of use Stefan
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, June 10, 2007 13:08:22 -0400 Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 2. Move CVS - I think this is a simple move from one machine to the other > right? ISTM this has been done before for other projects, is this something > I can just ask to have done and someone (Marc? Dave?) can make it happen? :-) Just let me know which project and I can copy it over easily enough ... just make sure that the project admins know not to commit anything to the old when they are ready, and to wait for the new to be available ... > > > 3. Mailing lists - AIUI this is a bit tricker. Right now we don't have any > way to quietly migrate mailing lists right? For a project to move it's list, > we create a new one on the pgfoundry site, and then load in a list of current > subscribers from gborg... does that sound right, or is there some other > method? Again this is an area I'm not familiar with someone whom I can > coordinate this through would be great. I can copy over whatever files are needed, but someone with mailman experience will need to provide instructions to export/import whatever is required ... > 4. Moving bugs and tracker items - I know folks have talked about using > scripts to do this in the past, do such scripts exists? If not I can look > into writing one up... though if someone knows that to be a dead-end we can > probably brute force it by recreating at least the open items for each > project (assuming the projects are willing to help on this) I believe JoshB had some scripts that he worked up with ChrisR's help from the gborg side ... but, I also believe they were meant to be run system-wide, not per project ... might provide a starting point though ... > 5. documentation / downloads - For projects that have a release history, I am > guessing there is no way to magically move these over; they are something > that will have to be done manually? If that's not the case please lmk, > otherwise I'll let project owners know thatsthe case. Files themselves should be moveable, and any 'release history', I would imagine, would be stored in teh database, so a conversion script of some sort would need to be made ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGbDlb4QvfyHIvDvMRAqS/AJ9Gaq+hrW0f7vEyIxPHBROKSyMJdwCfYM8f Oot5uIhk+yru6FL66ch9JLM= =2dEJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Robert Treat wrote: > Ok folks, > > I've gotten in contact with some of the project admins and have some projects > that are ready to move and want to come up with a game plan for moving people > across. I'm not overly familiar with some of the parts of the system, so I > am hoping that someone else can jump in for certain parts. Here's a recap of > what I think needs to happen for moving a project: > > 1. create a new project on pgfoundry and assign that project to the proper > owner. I can submit these requests and include the proper info, though > someone will have to approve it. Note that pgfoundry is about to move. Yes someone will have to approve it. > 2. Move CVS - I think this is a simple move from one machine to the other > right? ISTM this has been done before for other projects, is this something > I can just ask to have done and someone (Marc? Dave?) can make it happen? :-) Yes it is as simple as moving the repo "once" the pgfoundry project is setup. > > 3. Mailing lists - AIUI this is a bit tricker. Right now we don't have any > way to quietly migrate mailing lists right? For a project to move it's list, > we create a new one on the pgfoundry site, and then load in a list of current > subscribers from gborg... does that sound right, or is there some other > method? Again this is an area I'm not familiar with someone whom I can > coordinate this through would be great. Actually this isn't that tough: 1. Create duplicative prefix name for list (foo-general@gborg == foo-general@pgfoundry) 2. Subscribe all users from gborg to pgfoundry (also easy as command utilities exist, both are running mailman) 3. Redirect aliases on gborg to aliases on pgfoundry so that old users can use old list address for short time 4. Move mboxes to regenerate archives. > > 4. Moving bugs and tracker items - I know folks have talked about using > scripts to do this in the past, do such scripts exists? If not I can look Supposedly to some degree they do, I would note that this is where the migration usually stops because no one has used the scripts and obviously nobody is willing to do the work by hand. Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: >> Ok folks, >> I've gotten in contact with some of the project admins and have some >> projects that are ready to move and want to come up with a game plan >> for moving people across. I'm not overly familiar with some of the >> parts of the system, so I am hoping that someone else can jump in for >> certain parts. Here's a recap of what I think needs to happen for >> moving a project: >> >> 1. create a new project on pgfoundry and assign that project to the >> proper owner. I can submit these requests and include the proper >> info, though someone will have to approve it. > > Note that pgfoundry is about to move. Yeah - I'll make sure we coordinate that with Rob though. I want to make sure we minimise the impact of either project on the other. Regards, Dave
I was reviewing the conversion script that was created and it only
does the project and bugs. Nothing else was ever written to convert the
rest of the information. Is there a feel yet for what projects are
willing to leave behind and what they won't. In the past most of the
projects that wanted to move and have done so already were happy with
CVS. I don't know if that is the case though as for the remaining
projects.
Chris Ryan
--- Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Ok folks,
>
> I've gotten in contact with some of the project admins and have some
> projects
> that are ready to move and want to come up with a game plan for
> moving people
> across. I'm not overly familiar with some of the parts of the
> system, so I
> am hoping that someone else can jump in for certain parts. Here's a
> recap of
> what I think needs to happen for moving a project:
>
> 1. create a new project on pgfoundry and assign that project to the
> proper
> owner. I can submit these requests and include the proper info,
> though
> someone will have to approve it.
>
> 2. Move CVS - I think this is a simple move from one machine to the
> other
> right? ISTM this has been done before for other projects, is this
> something
> I can just ask to have done and someone (Marc? Dave?) can make it
> happen? :-)
>
> 3. Mailing lists - AIUI this is a bit tricker. Right now we don't
> have any
> way to quietly migrate mailing lists right? For a project to move
> it's list,
> we create a new one on the pgfoundry site, and then load in a list of
> current
> subscribers from gborg... does that sound right, or is there some
> other
> method? Again this is an area I'm not familiar with someone whom I
> can
> coordinate this through would be great.
>
> 4. Moving bugs and tracker items - I know folks have talked about
> using
> scripts to do this in the past, do such scripts exists? If not I can
> look
> into writing one up... though if someone knows that to be a dead-end
> we can
> probably brute force it by recreating at least the open items for
> each
> project (assuming the projects are willing to help on this)
>
> 5. documentation / downloads - For projects that have a release
> history, I am
> guessing there is no way to magically move these over; they are
> something
> that will have to be done manually? If that's not the case please
> lmk,
> otherwise I'll let project owners know thatsthe case.
>
> Please let me know if there are other items I am overlooking. Since I
> have a
> couple of projects ready to move, I'd like to start pushing these
> through
> sooner rather than later, since it will take some effort to
> coordinate
> things. TIA.
>
> --
> Robert Treat
> Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
>
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Chris, > I was reviewing the conversion script that was created and it only > does the project and bugs. Nothing else was ever written to convert the > rest of the information. Is there a feel yet for what projects are > willing to leave behind and what they won't. In the past most of the > projects that wanted to move and have done so already were happy with > CVS. I don't know if that is the case though as for the remaining > projects. Also, note that I last synchronized users over a year ago, so any new users in Gborg since then will need to be added *under the same ids* to pgfoundry for the scripts to work. The ids have an offset to prevent overlap. Complicating this is that some users may have been added under the same names in both systems with different user ids. We'll have to come up with a script to fix this. As for CVS vs. SVN, I think we should worry about SVN support after we get Gborg shut down and pgFoundry moved to a new server. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco
Josh,
Yes I was aware of that but it's good to bring that to everyones
attention. That is one of the reasons that makes the automated
conversion now harder than it was way-back-when and why I think the
more projects we can get to move with just CVS and or mailman archives
would be the easiest.
Chris Ryan
--- Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> > I was reviewing the conversion script that was created and it
> only
> > does the project and bugs. Nothing else was ever written to convert
> the
> > rest of the information. Is there a feel yet for what projects are
> > willing to leave behind and what they won't. In the past most of
> the
> > projects that wanted to move and have done so already were happy
> with
> > CVS. I don't know if that is the case though as for the remaining
> > projects.
>
> Also, note that I last synchronized users over a year ago, so any new
> users in
> Gborg since then will need to be added *under the same ids* to
> pgfoundry for
> the scripts to work. The ids have an offset to prevent overlap.
>
> Complicating this is that some users may have been added under the
> same names
> in both systems with different user ids. We'll have to come up with
> a script
> to fix this.
>
> As for CVS vs. SVN, I think we should worry about SVN support after
> we get
> Gborg shut down and pgFoundry moved to a new server.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> PostgreSQL @ Sun
> San Francisco
>
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