Clone all SourceForge repositories into https://github.com/LowResourceLanguages/

[RichardLitt]

Current SourceForge projects:

• accentuate.us a.k.a. "charlifter". Statistical Unicodification of plain text for many languages
• AGTK AGTK is a suite of software components for building tools for annotating linguistic signals, time-series data which documents any kind of linguistic behavior (e.g. audio, video). The internal data structures are based on annotation graphs.
• Apertium Apertium is a toolbox to build open-source shallow-transfer machine translation systems, especially suitable for related language pairs: it includes the engine, maintenance tools, and open linguistic data for several language pairs.
• CTK Built around LDC's champollion sentence aligner kernel, Champollion Tool Kit (CTK) aims to providing ready-to-use parallel text sentence alignment tools for as many language pairs as possible.
• Gramadóir Grammar checking engine that is designed for the rapid development of grammar checkers for minority languages and other languages with limited computational resources.
• hunspell.old Mirror of the Hunspell CVS repository at SourceForge (http://hunspell.cvs.sourceforge.net/hunspell)
• Skype in your language Translate Skype into unsupported languages
• Gargantua Fast Unsupervised Sentence Aligner described in "Improved unsupervised sentence alignment for symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel corpora", COLING 2010.
• Bangla-অঙ্কুর for Mac This project aims to develop a phonetic based Bangla typing system for Macintosh computer which can be developed into a transliteration technique in the future.
• Bengali Writer `Bengali Writer' is a set of utilities for computerized editing and typesetting in Bengali, a language of India and Bangladesh. It comprises a set of fonts for Bengali in several formats (METAFONT, BDF, PS), a text editor with spell-cheking, export, and more.
• Ekushey Bangla Computing and Localization Project for the Bangla speaking people.
• Lekho A collection of tools and resources for using bangla on computers
• Lingala NLP NLP tools and resources for Lingala

[RichardLitt]

Here is a justification for not using SF: http://blog.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/. Here is a reddit thread about it, too.

I contacted Phillip Cash about searching the ILAT archives to see if this has been done yet, but got no response.

• [ ] Send a message to ILAT asking if anyone has done anything about SourceForge.

[cesine]

I have some time today to help out with this.

DONE already by the maintainers :)

• Gramadóir: is on github https://github.com/kscanne/gramadoir
• hunspell.old: already has a github organization https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell, and a mirror on github https://github.com/sillsdev/hunspell and https://github.com/sillsdev/hunspell.old https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/?source=directory
• Skype in your language: has already moved to github https://github.com/akerbeltz/skypeinyourlanguage
• Gargantua: is on github https://github.com/braunefe/Gargantua

DONE Today:

• AGTK: https://github.com/lowresourcelanguages/agtk from svn https://sourceforge.net/p/agtk/code/HEAD/tree/, jchoyt and stevenbird and are on github i think @hleeldc is also part of the AGTK team, we could ask them if we can transfer them the repo
• CTK https://github.com/LowResourceLanguages/champollion from multiple cvs and tags: https://sourceforge.net/p/champollion/code/?source=navbar @xiaoyima is on github we could ask him if he wants to transfer ownership https://github.com/xiaoyima?tab=repositories
• bengaliwriter: https://github.com/LowResourceLanguages/bwedit from files https://sourceforge.net/projects/bengaliwriter/files/?source=navbar might be on github https://github.com/adrab, but he doesn't list it on his site http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~abhij/download/index.html
• Lekho: https://github.com/LowResourceLanguages/lekho from cvs https://sourceforge.net/p/lekho/code/?source=navbar and @kghose is on github we could ask him if he wants to transfer ownership https://github.com/kghose?tab=repositories

TODOs

• Bangla-অঙ্কুর for Mac: both git are empty https://sourceforge.net/p/onkur/Bangla-onkur_v1/ref/master/ but it does have files https://sourceforge.net/projects/onkur/files/
• ekushey: is a lot of files :( https://sourceforge.net/projects/ekushey/files/?source=navbar the maintainers might be on github https://github.com/omiazad

Maybe shouldnt do?

• Apertium: has an unofficial github fan org https://github.com/apertium and is using svn https://sourceforge.net/p/apertium/svn/HEAD/tree/ they seem pretty committed to sourceforge (have the logo on their about us page https://www.apertium.org/index.eng.html?dir=tat-kaz#translation)
• accentuate.us is the same codebase as Lingala below
• Lingala: https://sourceforge.net/p/lingala/code/HEAD/tree/ We cant use the svn import because it has some large data files in it. I also realized that cos is @kscanne on github. ~TODO transfer lingala to @kscanne and ask @kscanne if he likes the idea of importing issues... of if he prefers to keep the issues on sourceforge.

Issue importer https://github.com/cmungall/gosf2github (if you are an admin on the source forge project you can export your issues)

CVS to git http://www.gromacs.org/Developer_Zone/Git/Migrating_a_CVS_repository_to_GIT example usage:

git cvsimport -A ../authors.txt -v -a -i -k -d :pserver:anonymous@lekho.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lekho -C lekho_lekho-cvs.git lekho

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btw I got this in my email from sourceforge this week so I started reading Wikipedia to find out more about the sale by Dice to BIZX, and the previous changes while Dice owned SourceForge. I'm not sure what if this sale will reduce or improve the sourceforge open source karma. It looks like Bizx canceled the "DevShare" Project which was what introduced the adware in downloads.

• https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/

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[kscanne]

FYI I moved all of my repos from sourceforge to github a couple of months ago. Gramadóir in particular is now here: https://github.com/kscanne/gramadoir

The only exception was the lingala repository which is contains some massive data files that probably shouldn't be under version control anyway. All of the import tools fail on it because of its size. At some point in the future I'll create a new repo here with just the code and try to preserve as much of this history as possible.

[cesine]

@kscanne cool! i classified the repos into groups that are already on github.

@RichardLitt i might not have time to finish this (there are still 2 more repos to go, with a ton of files that might need to be individually downloaded (?)) but i will at least prep a PR #104 to update the links the github forks and maybe contact the maintainers to see if they want the repos in their own githubs now that we've tracked them down :)

edit: it looks like we cant transfer them the repos, but maybe they can do it if they accepted their invite to the org

[RichardLitt]

@cesine Sounds great! There's no rush, but thanks so much for taking the initiative on this.

[RichardLitt]

@cesine Should we consider this done?

[cesine]

hi :)

there are still 2 more TODOs :( but we could make a new issue for them? or close this issue until we have time.

• Bangla-অঙ্কুর for Mac
• ekushey

[kghose]

@cesine and @RichardLitt Thank you so much for doing all this work. I am happy to transfer ownership for Lekho! This project, however, is majorly obsolete - it was somewhat relevant when editor support for UTF-8 was poor, but now I think all major OSes have good Bengali support. It is a historical curiosity now.

[RichardLitt]

@kghose Nice to see you here! Transferring isn't necessary; if it's on GitHub, we can fork it, and if it isn't we can clone it and host it that way. You still retain copyright and storage.

Obsolete doesn't mean not potentially useful. While Bengali is doing well, thousands of other languages aren't, and they may benefit from seeing how you helped build editor support.

[RichardLitt]

I think this can be closed. The work was good (thanks, @cesine), but I don't think we need to clone those two other repos at this time.