Re: A plea for volunteers (Fwd: CVS support at SourceForge ends Nov. 30)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 07.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb sfeam via gnuplot-beta:

> So I am making a plea for a  volunteer to step up and transfer the project files
> to some git repository.

Going all the way to Git might not be optimal for us.  SVN is closer in 
philosophy to CVS.  But as the primary maintainer for the last several 
years, that decision is clearly yours.

> I don't really care much where the repository lives, but unless the associated
> gnuplot web site, bug trackers, mailing lists, etc are also moved it would
> seem simplest to continue using SourceForge.

I vote to keep it on SourceForge.  They offer both SVN and git, and IMHO 
it makes sense to keep it all in one place.

> If no one steps up, then I'm afraid gnuplot development will be offline
> indefinitely.   

I'd hate to see that happen.

Eric S. Raymond has offered (twice) to help us with such a repository 
move, but I fear this rather short notice by SF may overload his ability 
to help all affected projects in time.  If that helps, I can offer to 
share the workload with Mr. Raymond, to whatever extent that even makes 
sense.

I'll be transforming another (smaller) project myself, so I'll have to 
learn how this is done, anyway.  I've already begun experimenting with 
the tools in question.