[Gambas-user] Gambas migration to github (or something else?)

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 09.06.2015 07:24, schrieb Adrien Prokopowicz:
> Le Tue, 09 Jun 2015 04:50:53 +0200, Benoît Minisini
> <gambas at ...1...> a écrit:
>
>> Le 09/06/2015 04:21, Adrien Prokopowicz a écrit :
>>> Le Sat, 30 May 2015 21:55:04 +0200, Benoît Minisini
>>> <gambas at ...1...> a écrit:
>>>
>>>> Le 30/05/2015 21:42, Adrien Prokopowicz a écrit :
>>>>> Le Sat, 30 May 2015 20:23:17 +0200, Benoît Minisini
>>>>> <gambas at ...1...> a écrit:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm currently testing the SVN import feature of github for Gambas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The plan is to migrate from subversion to something else, that "else"
>>>>>> having to provide git (or svn) and a bug tracker.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main reason is the "Gimp" sourceforge case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone has a problem against using git instead of subversion,
>>>>>> please
>>>>>> tell. I don't know how to use git yes, and I think it will be better
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> faster.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know if I can import Google issues into github with the
>>>>>> Google
>>>>>> code export, I will check.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And at the moment, GitHub tells me that 87% of the repository is
>>>>>> imported, while sending me a mail telling that the import has failed
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> the same time... Weird!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have used Github (and therefore Git) for both school and personal
>>>>> projects for quite some time, so personally I have no problem with
>>>>> Gambas
>>>>> switching to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, Github does not provide website hosting nor mailing-list
>>>>> features,
>>>>> so will these stay on SourceForge ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, I haven't found any "Gambas" organization, do you plan to make
>>>>> one
>>>>> before importing the repository ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>> I just created a personal account to check svn import.
>>>>
>>> Have you had any success importing the svn repository to Github ?
>>>
>> Yes, but there is no mailing-list. I'm thinking about "gna!" now...
>>
> Oh right, I forgot about that ...
>
> I made some research around gna!, and I have a few questions :
>
> - gna! seems to have originated from GNU Savannah, but I couldn't
>     find the exact reasons of this separation, and both look pretty
>     similar to me. So why not going to Savannah (which seems bigger
>     and directly supported by the FSF and GNU) ?
>
> - Also, thinking about gna!/savannah reminded me of this old
>     proposition[0] to become a GNU project.
>     I don't remember you actually accepting or rejecting it, nor
>     being rejected by the GNU project, so what happened ?
>     Maybe they could help with this hosting problem ...
>
> [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/32334826/

As far as I remember, GNU's restrictions for the source code and rules 
for comments within the sources were too strict or badly adaptable to 
the Gambas way of doing. In the end, the idea seemed to fail at this 
point, as nobody was able or willing to rewrite the code to fulfill the 
requirements.

But I haven't read the archives yet, so it's purely taken from my memory 
which has a high error rate ;)

Regards
Rolf