Re: Google Code shutting down

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote Monday, May 04, 2015 5:21 PM
>
>> Wasn't Savannah's main system Savane a fork of SourceForge's proprietary
>> software version?  Anybody have more of a clue about the relations
>> between the various versions and what that might mean for our chances of
>> getting this system adopted by Savannah?
>
> It seems SourceForge adopted Allura around 2011/2012.  One of their
> news items, dated 19 Jun 2012, says, "Also, our new Allura platform
> has many core features ..."
>  
>> If we have a really viable migration path out of non-Savannah hosting,
>> it seems like putting our eggs not in too many outsourced baskets might
>> save us from some future headaches like the Google code one.
>
> Not sure Allura itself includes the data migration tool.  It has a
> GoogleCode Wiki importer as an add-on, but I can see nothing else.  I
> suspect the full importer is a SourceForge app.
>
> Even so, Allura looks the best bet so far.  Not least because
> SourceForge must have knocked out most of the bugs by now.  We just
> need an OS host.  Allura give a list of deployments, but it's pretty
> short:
> https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/wiki/Allura%20Deployments/
>
> None seems suitable for LP.

If it looks like a good fit, it seems reasonable to ask Savannah for
hosting.  Code base, licensing, philosophy, upstream, are not really all
that aligned with GNU.  But it's not like Savane itself would be really
better-matched in that regard.

-- 
David Kastrup