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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:27:09 +0200
From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: killing gborg - devision of labor
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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