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Changing to Github hosting. #2913

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Have you considered moving the project hosting to Github? It has better issue 
tracking, search capabilities, wiki, project health monitoring and other 
statistics (both for project and contributors). More importantly, it has a lot 
more developers using it so that the chances of someone 
searching/finding/contributing to this awesome project goes up substantially.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chaitany...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2014 at 1:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We had a look at switching over to Github, but there was no good way to 
transfer all of the issue tracking history. After 5+ years this is a rich and 
substantial resource, and I am not clear whether the gain of switching would be 
worth the loss. Besides, you found us here...

Original comment by irasc...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2014 at 8:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by irasc...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2014 at 8:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
A possibility to consider would be moving the code to GitHub (nicer interface, 
pull requests, easier to fork, network graph, etc.) and keeping the issues on 
Google Code.

Also, the website code could be put in a branch which would enable improvements 
from the community (for example: "Look for the line 'CONFIG += x86_64 x86 ppc'" 
could be put in bold, I lost so much time...)

Original comment by david.pe...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2014 at 12:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I fully agree that the issue tracking history would be a rich and substantial 
resource and a testament to the vigorous health of the project and the 
community.

I am also not sure when the last time the migration was considered, because it 
seems there are tools that can migrate the issues for you automatically as 
shown here.

https://github.com/arthur-debert/google-code-issues-migrator

The following person  seems to have used the script above to migrate their 
issues as well.

http://beets.radbox.org/blog/github-issues.html

It seems the biggest problem would be "spam" for each of the contributors as 
the issues are created in github and the loss of original author name/date. 

I know what you mean by the cost/benefit trade off, but given the new set of 
tools available now and in the future, might be worth revisiting this issue 
once in a while.

Original comment by chaitany...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2014 at 2:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
More info at issue 2203.
Looking at the migration report, it doesn't sound so bad after all. The 
benefits do seem higher these days.
Would anyone of you be willing to give it a try, adapting the script to our 
case and see what results it produces?

Original comment by andre.knoerig@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2014 at 4:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I have migrated the code and issues to GitHub:
https://github.com/davidperrenoud/fritzing

The pull requests by @davidsansome on google-code-issues-migrator have to be 
applied if someone wants to do this migration again (I don't advise it as it 
took a loooooong time even with a DigitalOcean server). Also, if you hit the 
GitHub API rate limit, you have to wait an hour and restart the script from at 
the issue it stopped.

For unknown reasons (Unicode?), I wasn't able to migrate the following issues 
but they can be added manually if needed:
https://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=2318
https://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=2423

What do you think?

Original comment by david.pe...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2014 at 9:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The username "fritzing" was deemed dormant and liberated under GitHub's 
name-squatting policy. I quickly created an organization named "fritzing" in 
order not to lose the name again and added @aknoerig and @el-j based on the 
list of contributors with a GitHub account (but you can remove me from the 
organization if you want as it's your project and trademark after all).

This way, the GitHub URL could now be:
https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing

Original comment by david.pe...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2014 at 10:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
That's awesome, thanks! We had just started experimenting with it ourselves. 
el-j aka bluearc has done it at our existing github account at 
https://github.com/FritzingOrg. I don't know if he took a different approach, 
but he seems to have had more trouble migrating issues.
@bluearc, maybe we should then also move the code to the 'fritzing' account? At 
least all the issues are there.

It's nice to see that all issues keep a back-link to the original google issue 
tracker, especially since github doesn't support file attachments other than 
images.

There's one major issue with the migration that I would still like to see 
solved before we make the switch: attributing contributors properly. Currently 
the account that runs the migration gets attributed with all the commits. I can 
see that in el-js repository some additional users got attributed and sent him 
a list of google code vs. github accounts of committers. We can't get all 
people, but we should try to get as many as possible.
Can any of you see how this is done?

Original comment by andre.knoerig@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2014 at 10:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Commits seem to be automatically assigned based on the e-mail of the 
contributor who made the commit.

For example, André, you should associate your ixds.de e-mail to your GitHub 
account to have the following commit assigned to you:
https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing/commit/dbc1f6e225a9bb31cba799e689f4a3842661
44f3

Original comment by david.pe...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2014 at 10:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Now I see, thanks! So we only have to tell everyone to add their mail addresses 
to their profiles.
I'm on holiday at the moment, so won't continue with this until I'm back, but 
it looks like we're very close then!

Original comment by andre.knoerig@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2014 at 10:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue has moved to new issue tracker at github. Please continue the discussion 
at https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues

Original comment by andre.knoerig@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2014 at 3:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks everyone for the support, the move is now done! Find us now at 
https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/.
I'll update the readme and then announce it.

Original comment by andre.knoerig@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2014 at 4:20