From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-01-08T04:12:38+09:00
Subject: Re: WANTED: need a real web API for rubyforge.org

Hi,

On Jan 7, 10:58 am, "Bryan Richardson" <btri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be worthwhile to consider Redmine (http://www.redmine.org)? It's
> pretty much a Ruby clone of Trac and supports Git.  Not sure if it does 1.1,
> 2, or 3, but I know it has at least part of 4 (forum support).

Remine 0.8.0 supports CVS, SVN, Mercurial, Bazaar, Darcs and Git.

The best approach, in my opinion, is to:

1) Register http://www.rubyforge2.org using Redmine.
2) Encourage people to register their projects there instead of the
current system.
3) After about 6 months, if all goes well, ban new project creation on
the current Rubyforge (though leaving everything else intact).
4) Strongly encourage people to migrate their projects over to the new
system.
5) After 3 (4, 5?) years, shut down the old RubyForge, making
rubyforge2.org an alias for rubyforge.org.

I don't think there's any hope of "migrating" projects from the
current system to Redmine, though. Perhaps as a paid service, but
while tickets might be easy, mailing list archives and wiki
information would be especially difficult. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

Anyway, that's the approach I would take if I were running the show.

Regards,

Dan