[Koha-devel] move to savannah

[Paul POULAIN]

Russel Garlick a écrit :
> Hi Paul,
> 
> What is savannah 

Savannah is an open source repository. It was open by the FSF when 
sourceforge decided no more to release their code under GPL. It's based 
on GPL sourceforge code, with some/many improvements.
It provides exactly the same services (CVS, mailing lists, bug tracker, ...)

> and why are we moving to it?
For 2 reasons :
- sourceforge has many perf problems (probably due to their succes). 
Sometimes, the CVS is down, sometimes it's the mailing list. And anytime 
(or almost, CVS is really slowwwww) I am (small) developper on another 
savannah project (dolibarr), and I can say I was stunned by the speed 
the 1st time I updated my CVS copy on savannah ! I thought sourceforge 
CVS speed was the standard cvs speed, that's not true at all !!!

- for philosophical reasons : why do we work on a OSS software using a 
non-OSS platform ?

> But my search hadn't found anything on it since 
> August, so this change, to me came "out of the blue".
<snip>
> If this happens I'd like to do a news release on the website about it.

In fact, I agree it came "out of the blue" if it means "from nowhere & 
suddunly". In fact, I met viveVKC on #koha, and, as we were chatting he 
said he was formerly a hacker on savannah. That reminded me we had a 
koha project defined here, holded by steve tonnensen that is no more 
reachable, so we can't do anything with it. I asked viveCKS what we 
could do. He pointed the link for such questions. I posted a 
mail/request here. I got an answer.
But the answer was highly more that what I expected : the savannah admin 
did not only add me as koha project manager on Koha, he also migrated 
the CVS (with all history).
That's a strong acceleration to the migration. We have to decide quickly 
to move (or not to move, but I don't see why we would not !) to avoid 
having 2 cvs active & unsynch !

HTH

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)