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

[Sill, Alan]

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

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