From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2013-03-14 21:40:19
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Over the last year or so, SourceForge staff have developed a new version of their software-hosting software called Allura which they believe has long since been ready for prime time. They also would like to withdraw the old version of their software-hosting software so they don't have to maintain it any more. Thus, they are strongly encouraging all SourceForge projects to convert to the new Allura form of the SourceForge site software by the "end of Q1" which I interpret to mean March 31st. Accordingly I have converted a number of small SF projects and checked the results. All seems well with those projects. The principal effect you see from the conversion is a new svn source-code browser and a new svn repository at a different location from the old repository. I have implemented a script (scripts/compare_svn_repos) that checks that the detailed checked-out directory trees are identical between the old and Allura svn repos for a sample of typically 100 different revisions. That script also checks that for the latest revision the log files (including all commit messages for all historical commits) produced by the svn log --verbose command are identical between the old and new repos. Those svn checks for 5 different projects of mine that have already been converted to Allura showed no svn issues. Accordingly, I plan to convert the PLplot project to the Allura form of SourceForge site software starting tomorrow (Friday) morning followed up by running the svn checking script to make sure all is well with the new svn repo. I will let you know if/when that process has been satisfactorily completed. The principal effect you should see is a new svn source-code browser and a new web address for the svn repo. So those following, e.g., the svn trunk version of PLplot will be required to do a fresh checkout using the new repo address (which I will publish here tomorrow when the conversion and svn repo checking process is complete). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2013-03-16 04:05:59
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On 2013-03-14 14:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I will let you know if/when that process has been satisfactorily > completed. The principal effect you should see is a new svn > source-code browser and a new web address for the svn repo. So those > following, e.g., the svn trunk version of PLplot will be required to > do a fresh checkout using the new repo address (which I will publish > here tomorrow when the conversion and svn repo checking process is > complete). The conversion to the Allura software at SourceForge only took 20 minutes this (Friday) morning. The check of the new svn repository results againsts the old svn repository results took much longer but finished just now. My checking script verified the old and new repos generated the same complete log of all commit messages from revision 1 to the latest revision and also made sure that old and new repos gave the same local directory results for 100 different revisions sampled from revision 1 to the latest. So I am satisfied with these results which give a pretty thorough check that we have successfully preserved the PLplot commit history for more than 12000 commits starting more than 2 (!) decades ago. The old svn repo is still readable but not writeable so all further development activity will be with the new svn repo. Thus, those here wanting to follow on-going PLplot development leading up to the next release of PLplot (and also our core developers wanting to make further development commits) should do a fresh svn checkout of the new repo using one of the methods given when you click on the "code" icon at http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/. Please send a message to this list if you have any trouble accessing the new svn repo or using any of the new (Allura) facilities at SourceForge for the PLplot project. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: James T. <jt...@gm...> - 2013-03-16 17:24:52
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On 15 March 2013 22:05, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote: > On 2013-03-14 14:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The old svn repo is still readable but not writeable so all further > development activity will be with the new svn repo. Thus, those here > wanting to follow on-going PLplot development leading up to the next > release of PLplot (and also our core developers wanting to make > further development commits) should do a fresh svn checkout of the new > repo using one of the methods given when you click on the "code" icon > at http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/. > I've updated the AUR plplot-svn package to use the new URL. James |