FYI. Now it looks like we will have to do the move of Pivot-Extras to SF ourselves. Waiting for instructions.
~Roger Whitcomb Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: jan i <j...@apache.org> > Date: July 13, 2015 at 1:23:35 PM PDT > To: "d...@community.apache.org" <d...@community.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Moving Apache Extras > Reply-To: d...@community.apache.org > >> On Monday, July 13, 2015, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> 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. > > that was my understanding as well. AOO moved a while ago. > > We should notify the PMCs how to move, and leave the rest to volunteer time. > > rgds > jan i > >> >> --Rich >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my Windows Phone >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Rich Bowen<mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com> >>> Sent: 7/13/2015 12:47 PM >>> To: d...@community.apache.org<mailto:d...@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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > > -- > Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
