Hi everybody
I followed the conversation about the SF CVS problem and noticed all the suggestions for switching to SVN, to another server or even to move away from SourceForge. Just to make clear, I'm aware of the current CVS problems and I'm interested in better solution as well as you all are.
The reason why I chose SF was the availability of tools without having to configure them by myself. This is something I still don't want to do and what I don't have time for.
In October 2005 we discussed about setting up a Trac system which would combine a wiki for documentation, a bug tracker and a SVN server together in one box. We all agreed that this would be a very nice tool for further development. Then somebody offered to install Trac on his server (I don't have a server with Python available) and started setting up the service. Due lack of time, this was not finished and somebody else offered to take care of that and set up a new Trac installation. This was in December 2005. The result of that can be seen at http://trac.roundcube.net/. He imported a snapshot from the CVS and all SF tracker data and I added some styling to the new platform. We discussed some details about user management and some configuration changes and the Trac installation got finished for about 90%. February 26 was the last time I heard from Steeve and asked him for a target date when we can move data from SF to our new platform. Unfortunately an answer is still missing...
As you can see, serious attempts were made to move away from SF but the main problem of open source projects is the quick loss of interest and the missing reliability of some project members. I can understand that since I have very little time for the project myself.
After almost half a year, I call again for somebody who is willing to install and to maintain a Trac system, which is still a very good solution for our project, I guess. I can provide DNS entries, styles for the Trac site and some adapted Python scripts for importing data from SF.
In the mean time, I published another CVs snapshot and we could move to the SF SVN server until we (hopefully) have our Trac platform ready.
Comments are welcome...
Thomas