GRASS Migration to OSGeo

Migration task list

The GRASS infrastructure is described in the infrastructure document.

To finish in 2007

Migration from CVS to OSGeo SVN

Task manager: Martin Landa, Howard Butler

• Description: SVN hosting
• Implementation: Migration from CVS to SVN
• Date: end of Nov 2007 (needs to be done in 2007)
• Status: open

Migration from GRASS Addons SVN to OSGeo SVN

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Martin Landa, Howard Butler

• Description: Server change
• Date: end of Nov 2007 (needs to be done in 2007)
• Task: SVN dump at grass.itc.it (done via rsync), then import at svn.osgeo.org
• Implementation: Migration to OSGeo SVN
• Requirements: Developers need to get all of their commits in CVS done by Friday YY at XX PM UTC. Then we migrate during the weekend.
• Status: open

Developer's TODO: get your "osgeo_id"

• Since OSGeo's SVN is managed via single sign-on authentication (LDAP), each developer with write access has to obtain an "osgeo_id" at http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid . If you already have created the ID but forgot the details, check at http://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ldap_web_search.py . This "osgeo_id" is then used to activate you for GRASS-SVN at OSGeo.

Migration of GForge bugtracker to OSGeo trac

Task manager: Maciej Sieczka, Howard Butler

• Description: SVN hosting
• Date: end of Nov 2007 (needs to be done in 2007)
• Task 1: migrate GForge bugs to trac (how?)
• Task 2: migrate old RT bugs to trac (how?)
• Status: open

Cron job Migration

Retire:

• cron_build_50tutor.sh -> outdated? keep?
• cron_cvs_DGLIBsnapshot.sh -> do we need it as separate package?
• cron_cvs_rsync.sh: rsync Intevation CVS to grass.itc.it (no need to keep after migration)

Maybe:

• cron_grass60_src_snapshot.sh -> outdated? keep?

Todo:

(all to be changed to SVN server after migration)

• cron_grass63_generate_prog_manuals.sh: requires server-side doxygen and graphviz (for dot), requires new target directory
• Stable weekly snapshots:
  • cron_grass62_release_src_snapshot.sh
  • cron_grass62_release_build_bins.sh
• Unstable weekly snapshots:
  • cron_grass63_src_snapshot.sh
  • cron_grass63_build_bins.sh
• cron_grass_fetch_usermap.sh: User map for web site hosted at GDF Hannover
• cron_grassweb_update.sh: Web pages -> obsolete, once the Drupal migration is done

• Suggestion: Maintain all cronjob scripts in OSGeo SVN repository fo easy maintenance (but manually copy into cron space for security reasons)
• Date: Dec 2007
• Status: open

Web Migration to grass.osgeo.org

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Wolf Bergenheim

• make grass.osgeo.org first site for Web-CVS update and rsync mirrors
• Date: Dec 2007
• Status: open

Search engine Migration

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Wolf Bergenheim, Tyler Mtchell

• Currently htdig based on grass.itc.it, due to Apache rewrite engine new lists.osgeo.org isn't picked up
• Google, Yahoo etc. need time to re-fetch the archive
• Mailman archives at lists.osgeo.org are slightly shifted in email reference number since the archives have been recreated
• TODO: verify with OSGeo how to search lists
• TODO: decides how to archive 'grass-commit'
• Date: Dec 2007
• Status: open

Web statistics Migration

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Wolf Bergenheim

• we have server statistics (apache logs) from 2002 onwards for grass.itc.it (the server delivered 6.73 Tb so far which is underestimated due to some lacking log data)
  • log files to be donated to OSGeo for Marketing analysis (backup)
• grass.osgeo.org needs (has?) server statistics
• Date: Dec 2007
• Status: open

To do in 2008

Wiki Migration

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Martin Spott, Howard Butler, Martin Landa

• Description: Migration of GDF Mediawiki to OSGeo Mediawiki (incl. version update)
• Date: Jan 2008?
• Status: open

Web Migration to Drupal

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Wolf Bergenheim

• Description: Migration of HTML Web pages to OSGeo Drupal (update to Drupal 5 ongoing there)
• Date: Jan 2008?
• Status: open
• Note: the site http://grass.osgeo.org has been set up already
• Note: the site http://www.grass-gis.org is a rewrite rule to that site
• Important: only 70% of the files are in CVS, all big files are a local copy on grass.itc.it and need to be transferred via rsync

--HB: Could someone provide details on what work is entailed in a migration to "Drupal 5"? Better, could someone provide a Drupal mock-up of what the GRASS front page and downloads page would be like?

Done

Migration of Mailman lists

Task manager: Markus Neteler, Frank Warmerdam

• Description: move of all grass.itc.it Mailman lists to http://lists.osgeo.org
• Date: 15 Nov 2007
• Note 1: some lists have been renamed for consistency
• Note 2: the old list addresses still work and are auto-fwd'ed to the new list addresses
• Note 3: the archives are redirected to lists.osgeo.org through Apache Rewrite engine
• Status: done

Special Note for weblist: The list is open to submit Web site comments but spam prone. Due to the lack of spam filter on the OSGeo site, it is now configured as follows:

 User -> weblist at grass itc.it -> /etc/aliases -> 
         -> neteler.osgeo..gmail.com (for Spam filtering) -> FWD -> 
           -> grass-web at lists osgeo.org