[Plplot-general] Planned conversion of the PLplot SourceForge project to Allura

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

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
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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).
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