Re: killing gborg - devision of labor

Robert Treat wrote:
> Ok folks,
>
> I've gotten in contact with some of the project admins and have some projects
> that are ready to move and want to come up with a game plan for moving people
> across. I'm not overly familiar with some of the parts of the system, so I
> am hoping that someone else can jump in for certain parts. Here's a recap of
> what I think needs to happen for moving a project:
>
> 1. create a new project on pgfoundry and assign that project to the proper
> owner. I can submit these requests and include the proper info, though
> someone will have to approve it.

the approval is handled by the gforge-admin team - so just submit them
and they will get approved.

>
> 2. Move CVS - I think this is a simple move from one machine to the other
> right? ISTM this has been done before for other projects, is this something
> I can just ask to have done and someone (Marc? Dave?) can make it happen? :-)
>
> 3. Mailing lists - AIUI this is a bit tricker. Right now we don't have any
> way to quietly migrate mailing lists right? For a project to move it's list,
> we create a new one on the pgfoundry site, and then load in a list of current
> subscribers from gborg... does that sound right, or is there some other
> method? Again this is an area I'm not familiar with someone whom I can
> coordinate this through would be great.
>
> 4. Moving bugs and tracker items - I know folks have talked about using
> scripts to do this in the past, do such scripts exists? If not I can look
> into writing one up... though if someone knows that to be a dead-end we can
> probably brute force it by recreating at least the open items for each
> project (assuming the projects are willing to help on this)

http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=1000013 has some scripts that
might be of use

Stefan