Hello, Bob! On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 15:55:05 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ineiev wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > I would thus like to move the project from SourceForge to Savannah. May > > > I take it this would be acceptable and welcomed?
> > Yes; it's nice to see software migrating to more user-respecting > > forges, > > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html > +1! It will be good to see you using Savannah. We are happy to help > with the process. Thanks! > > > Looking at the Savannah site, there are a couple of things which confuse > > > me. I couldn't find a definition of what is meant by "group". It seems > > > to mean the name of a project (in my case, "CC Mode") and/or the Linux > > > file-system group name under which project files will be stored > > > ("cc-mode"). > > The "project" is a type of group; other group types hosted on Savannah > > include GNU User Groups, www.gnu.org portions and www.gnu.org translation > > teams. > In deep detail there are project types defined in the SQL database and > there are Unix groups defined in the database that are real Unix > groups to the system for file access permissions. Therefore "group" > in that case means both things. But you can think of it as the > classic Unix group and that will be accurate. Files are stored on > disk accessible by file group permission. OK. > > > I would also like to preserve the project's mailing list, if possible. > +1! Preserving history is important. I agree. > > > I have a copy of posts going back to 2001 on my own machine, I don't > > > know if it will be possible to extract a more complete copy from > > > SourceForge. Do you see any problems, here? Currently, the main > > > mailing address for this list is bug-cc-m...@gnu.org, and the gnu server > > > forwards the mail to the SourceForge address. I foresee this address > > > remaining the main address for the list, relocated back to Savannah. > > I think you can use your old mailing list or migrate to lists.gnu.org. > I presume without looking that the old mailing list was hosted on > SourceForge. Indeed, so. It is still there. > And from past experience there I know they don't make accessing the > files there easy. That doesn't sound very good. :-( I've asked their support for a copy of the mailing list in, say, mbox format. That was two days ago and I haven't had a reply from them, as yet. I do hope they reply, one way or the other. > In which case it would be easier to use your archive of the mailing > list. Off the top of my head I don't know the recipe to do the > mailing list archive import but I generally know and would work it out > when the time comes to do it. Thanks! > > > What about old releases? How much point is there, trying to preserve > > > these? SourceForge still has releases going back around 20 years, to > > > release 5.26. Current (three years old) is 5.35. They do not take up > > > much space (around 700 kByte each). The older releases must be presumed > > > lost. > > You'll be able to upload them to Savannah download area. > +1 OK. Things are progressing. Maybe we'll have the "new" project up and running by this time next week. > Bob -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).