Re: SourceForge reorganization may affect gnuplot development site

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/03/2012 05:03 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> SourceForge is "upgrading" (in other words replacing) its current project
> source code repositories, mailing lists, bug trackers, etc.
>
> It is utterly unclear to me how much this will affect maintenance
> or use of the gnuplot project pages, but I guess we will find out.
>
> More information:
>      https://sourceforge.net/p/upgrade/
>
> If nothing else, apparently the URL to access the project pages
> will change.

I'm not sure the repositories themselves are being replaced, but the 
other items are changing (e.g., bug tracker, etc.).  However, CVS seems 
to be downplayed a bit and only SVN, mercurial and git are listed as 
supported.  So, if when upgrading, gnuplot is forced to choose one of 
those three, then it is essentially the same as replacing.  Not that 
"upgrading" from CVS is bad.  (I've used mercurial pretty much and that 
seems nice.)

The example project (Allura itself) doesn't seem too much different from 
the existing SourceForge, if perhaps less feature rich.  The color coded 
diffs viewing isn't much to speak of.  One has to use the horizontal 
slide bar quite a bit and then the colored line backgrounds only extend 
as far as the original window, so that isn't much use if the different 
parts are out to the right side of the window.

gnuplot isn't likely to use the discussion forum, I assume.

What this paste bin is, I have no idea.  It looks like hunks of code 
pasted there without username association or description.

The one sort of new thing (or perhaps it is simply something I hadn't 
noticed with the existing SourceForge) is every 5th or 6th page 
navigation a Flash advert comes up.

I'd say wait a while and see if Allure is improved and what the future 
is for CVS support.

Dan