[DFDL-WG] Fw: [wg-all] Migration of OGF document preparation and code support, etc., from SourceForge to Redmine

[Steve Hanson]

Let's discuss on next WG call.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh at uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848
----- Forwarded by Steve Hanson/UK/IBM on 09/07/2012 10:00 -----

From:   "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill at ttu.edu>
To:     OGF Work Groups <wg-all at ogf.org>
Date:   06/07/2012 02:57
Subject:        [wg-all] Migration of OGF document preparation and code 
support, etc., from SourceForge to Redmine
Sent by:        wg-all-bounces at ogf.org



As mentioned in December during the migration to new overall hosting for 
OGF, and announced formally at the OGF 34 meeting in Oxford in March,  OGF 
is in the process of migrating its support for working group document 
preparation, issue tracking, code and document repository and community 
wiki functions from SourceForge to a new community server based on 
Redmine.

Andre Merzky has kindly agreed to lead the technical aspects of this move, 
coordinating with the OGF group leaders and standards council (GFSG) and 
OGF Board as needed.  So far this move has been in a pilot phase, with a 
number of groups having made the move completely from GridForge based on 
SourceForge at forge.ogf.org to Redmine at redmine.ogf.org .  To cut down 
on the problem of spam registrations that were a nuisance on the old 
GridForge, we are asking people to please register for a new account and 
to choose a good access password to go with it when registering to the new 
server.

At this point, since things have gone fairly well, I would like to 
encourage all work groups and community groups in OGF to make the switch. 
As we develop more experience with the tools, more features may be added. 
For now, all of the basic functionality needed to support an OGF group is 
there.  For groups that use repositories, you may notice that the default 
version control system used on the new system is git, not subversion. 
While Redmine does support svn and it can be installed, so far all of the 
groups that have moved have been happy to convert to using git, which is 
presently much more popular with developers.  If this causes difficulty 
for your group, please let us know.  A tool does exist to do the migration 
of content from svn to git to make this transition easier for your group.

Send any questions to ogf-it at ogf.org or, in the case of organizational 
issues, to gfsg at ogf.org

Thanks to Andre for leading this effort, and to all of the groups that 
have made the transition so far.

Alan



Alan Sill, Ph.D
Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU

====================================================================
:  Alan Sill, Texas Tech University  Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167  :
:  e-mail: Alan.Sill at ttu.edu   ph. 806-834-5940  fax 806-834-4358  :
====================================================================


--
  The wg-all mailing list is an umbrella list for all
  OGF mailing lists.  If you are subscribed to any OGF
  mailing list, you will receive mails to wg-all.

  You can unsubscribe from this list on

  http://www.ogf.org/cgi-bin/perl/unsubscribe-wg-all.pl

  wg-all mailing list
  wg-all at ogf.org
  https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all


Unless stated otherwise above:
IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 
741598. 
Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/dfdl-wg/attachments/20120709/0c6b50f7/attachment.html>