Move to another site like GitHub or SourceForge?

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I just realized that soon Google Code is being shut down. I didn't see anything 
about it anywhere on this Google Code page, so I thought I would mention it 
just in case. I really like this, and would like to contribute and stuff, but 
we should migrate to something else soon.

March 12, 2015 - New project creation disabled

August 24, 2015 - The site goes read-only, can still checkout/view project 
source, issues, and wikis.

January 25, 2016 - The project hosting service is closed. You will be able to 
download a tarball of project source, issues, and wikis. These tarballs will be 
available throughout the rest of 2016.

I just want to make sure the project doesn't just disappear one day, or that 
everything is lost.

Thanks and hope to hear from somebody soon.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vgturtle...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2015 at 11:08

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adelikat approved of moving, but where should we move? I've never dealt with 
GitHub (and adelikat had problems with moving there), but I have successfully 
moved my own project to SF.

Original comment by feykomylce on 31 Mar 2015 at 6:34

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I have accounts on both, so either would be fine. I also had no issues 
migrating my projects to GitHub, but I didn't try moving them to Sourceforge. 
Whatever is chosen, switching to Git would be a huge plus.

I will try exporting to GitHub too just in case; if it fails, git-svn can be 
used to generate a Git repository, then it can be uploaded to GitHub by 
creating the project there, swapping the remote and pushing.

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 6:44

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Hm. Export complete in a couple minutes: 
https://github.com/marzojr/gens-rerecording

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 6:58

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Yeah, I was going to say for me it took a few minutes than completed 
successfully.

So that was easy. lol

Thanks for replying. You wouldn't believe how many Google Code projects I have 
exported. I am trying to save everything from WiiBrew, DSiBrew, PSWiki, 
emulators, etc. that use Google Code. Basically, you and about 3 or 4 projects 
are the only projects that have responded to emails, issues, etc. It looks like 
most of the projects will have to be continued by me. Unfortunately for the 
community, that probably means that most projects will have to change in some 
form. Mostly cosmetic stuff, like source control, makefiles/build stuff, maybe 
some licensing changes, some documentation will be changed to markdown, etc.

Did adelikat say what problems he had?

Original comment by vgturtle...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 9:55

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The progress never left 0% ever after a week. Anyway, there is now an 
organization ( https://github.com/orgs/TASVideos ) where I imported the 
repositories of all rerecording emulators I found (except Bizhawk, as Adelikat 
asked me not to as he would handle it himself. Right now, it has me and an 
invite for adelikat; it will be populated over the next few days as 
contributors are contacted for their GitHub accounts.

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 10:07

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Do you guys need any help with the project transfer? I can do conversions and 
GIT-specific stuff if you want.

Original comment by vgturtle...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 10:11

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It has already been transferred ( https://github.com/orgs/TASVideos ); it was 
adelikat that was having the problems, not me.

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 10:26

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Oh, I meant did you need help with making the changes for GitHub (like 
.gitignore, .gitattributes, writing/converting current documentation into 
Markdown format, etc).

Basically, I was asking if you needed assistance making the GitHub project 
easier to use and comply with the normal GitHub standards.

Original comment by vgturtle...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 11:09

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Oh, got it. Would you be interested in doing it for only one project or 
several? The organization in question has 13 projects, including this one.

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2015 at 12:57

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I will do it for all of them if you would like. Is BizHawk going to be 
uploaded/imported soon? I'd like to copy some files into all the 
directories/repositories at once...

Original comment by vgturtle...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2015 at 1:43

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adelikat is handling BizHawk, so I have no idea how long it will take. For what 
is worth, the auto-exporter has failed at least 4 times with it (that I know 
of), so it probably will take using git-svn to put it on GitHub.

Suggestion: lets continue this discussion GitHub; the issue already exists 
there ( https://github.com/TASVideos/gens-rerecording/issues/116 ), although it 
has become a bit out-of-date with the additional discussion.

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2015 at 1:54

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Alright. The source isn't the problem, usually the issues and Wiki pages are 
the biggest issue. Anyway, I will post there. :P

Original comment by vgturtle...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2015 at 2:08