[tei-council] Upgrading TEI Project on SF

[James Cummings]

Hi all,

SourceForge seems to be recommending people upgrade their project 
to their new Allura platform.  However, this gives some 
unintended side effects, like it will break all currently checked 
out versions of the SVN repository, and all our URLs will change 
(I'll have to change where those handy PURLs go, but at least 
they should still work, old full URLs might not).

We will have to do this *sometime* the question I guess I have 
for you is when is the right time to do this?

Sebastian will say that we should use this as an opportunity to 
move any non-Guidelines community contributed but TEIC owned 
software to our shiny new github account at 
https://github.com/organizations/TEIC which is another 
discussion.  (e.g. should things like Byzantium and 
odd-by-example move there)


Thoughts?

Info from Sourceforge below.

-James

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Upgrading your project to the Allura platform gives you access to 
some great new features, including custom tracker fields, 
integrated wiki, blog and code browsing tools, threaded 
discussions, and more! Here are changes you can expect to see 
when you upgrade your project:

Will be upgraded
At this time, we are able to update the following aspects of your 
project:
Meta-data (name, description, trove categories, etc)
Members and permissions
Project News
Forums
Hosted Applications and Project Web
Virtual Host configuration and MySQL databases
Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar and CVS repositories
Mailing Lists
Tracker data
Project Donations*

Will not be upgraded
These items will not be moved to your upgraded project:
Project Help Wanted
SCM stats, Forum stats, Ticket stats & Traffic stats
Trac will no longer integrate with SVN

Will work exactly the same
These items will continue to function they way they currently do:
Project summary page
File releases and download stats
Project Reviews

Note that the URLs used to access your code repositories will 
change, and an email will be sent to all project developers with 
the new URLs after the upgrade is complete.

Once you click Upgrade, the upgrade will be scheduled and will 
begin shortly. Any changes made to your project while the upgrade 
is in progress may not be reflected in the upgraded project.

Prior to upgrading, you can obtain a copy of your project's data 
as an XML file by clicking on the project name, selecting Project 
Admin » Features, then selecting XML Export.


-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford