[Koha-devel] move to savannah

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:10:07AM +0100, Paul POULAIN wrote:
> >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 ?
> snip...
> 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 !

I think Paul's reasoning is dead on. Why are we developing a GNU project
on a non-OSS platform? And we've all experienced annoying lag with 
sourceforge. Paul, I've signed up at savannah as 'kados'.

Cheers,

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