On 07/13/2015 04:00 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
Apache-extras is a service managed by ComDev. Though we never provided any
commitment to support it.
However, many extras (most?) are used by ASF PMCs and they need a solution to
the fact that Google Code is closing down. We are doing this with infra
resources for that reason (as a director you've seen the repeated requests from
some PMCs to find a resolution, you've also seen the responses to those
requests).
It's easier for Infra to move all projects rather than some projects. Hence the
current approach. Though you are correct, as noted on a different thread, that
the assumption all projects on extras belong to PMCs is likely flawed.
Unfortunately there is no easy way of identifying which are PMC owned and which
are not.
So here's an alternative approach. We (ComDev) send out a mail to PMCs
indicating that they need to great a ComDev issue if they want their project
moving. If they don't sign up they don't get moved.
We (ComDev) provide infra with a reduced list of projects to move and they run
the scripts for those projects.
I think I must have been watching all of these conversations (I know
it's been going for more than a year) with a certain understanding that
we were going to push everything onto volunteer labor rather than Infra.
So, mea culpa for not paying close enough attention. Yes, I know that
this has been discussed for *ages*.
I figured that what we, the ASF, were doing for these projects was
negotiating with SF for the service/resources/whatever, not doing the
actual migration. I figured either the projects themselves would do that
work, or Roberto and his team at SF would do it.
--Rich
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From: Rich Bowen<mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com>
Sent: 7/13/2015 12:47 PM
To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Moving Apache Extras
On 07/09/2015 02:42 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote:
Hiya folks,
I'm the "lucky person" in charge of moving the some 350 projects from
Google Code to SourceForge.
This will happen over the course of next week, save some freak accident
occurs, however, SourceForge is not Google Code, and as such, there are
a few things we need to consider:
Wait what?
Are you doing this because you're a nice person, or because it's an
Infra Assignment?
I ask because it seems a really iffy precedent giving paid infra support
to non-ASF projects. Tell me you're doing this for scotch rather than
for money, and I'll back off. I know you do wear many different hats.
--Rich
- I will create an admin account that will initially own all the
imported projects. This can/will be shared with the ComDev PMC.
- Someone (not me!!) will have to step up and help out with delegating
read/write access to the new repos on SourceForge.
- Preferably, someone will have to go through the giant list of
projects, and select those we'll import. This is not strictly necessary,
but if someone volunteers for this, that'd be super duper.
The most important thing is that we are able to delegate write access to
the devs (and do so!), so this does not simply become a big data dump
that just sits there. If any of you are interested in taking on that
task (preferably more than one person), please do speak up :)
With regards,
Daniel.
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