2013/4/30 Graeme Geldenhuys
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Hi,
SourcForge has upgraded its whole web and management system, and due to
that all projects had to upgrade to the new system.
Nobody seems to have upgraded Lazarus-CCR since this was announced, so
SourceForge deadline was reached, and they started forcefully upgrading
outstanding projects.
Well, that is one view of this history.
Another view:
Last october I upgraded Lazarus-CCR to the new system. It turned out that the old SVN repo was still writable and people committed to it. So I reverted the upgrade. (But the new SVN repo still existed).
End of January, SF changed their scripts, so that after migration, the old SVN repo is read-only and a redirection message is shown, when you try to commit to it.
Two weeks ago I migrated Lazarus (which has a mirror of svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus) to the new system. SVN migration failed, but was fixed after contact with SF staff.
Because if these experiences, I wanted to choose the time of migration carefully, so I have time to oversee the process.
But in the mean time, SF staff ran a script to make all migrated SVN repositories read-only. These are the repos that were migrated before last January. Because of a glitch in the script (I don't know the exact details), it considered Lazarus-CCR as migrated, maybe because there was a new (unused, out of date) SVN repo.
The easiest way out was to start the migration of Lazarus-CCR at that time, when SF staff was on line. That is what I did at 9:26 PM (Amsterdam time). SVN migration failed, I notified SF staff and the SVN import was started manually by SF staff. It was completed at 10:09 PM, I notified the svn committers who reported problems, and went to bed.
So, they only thing that was forced, was the mistake to set the old repo on read-only.
Vincent
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