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

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 09/06/2015 08:25, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>
> 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
>

No, it's "just" a matter of having the time of filling that:

http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html

I didn't have the time since last year to deal with that...

As for gna!, according to Wikipedia, it is a fork of Savannah made by 
the creators of Savannah that wanted to keep their way of managing it by 
collaboration.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini