As mentioned in December during the migration to new
overall hosting for OGF, and announced formally at the OGF 34 meeting in
Oxford in March,  OGF is in the process of migrating its support for
working group document preparation, issue tracking, code and document repository
and community wiki functions from SourceForge to a new community server
based on Redmine.

Andre Merzky has kindly agreed to lead the technical aspects of this move,
coordinating with the OGF group leaders and standards council (GFSG) and
OGF Board as needed.  So far this move has been in a pilot phase,
with a number of groups having made the move completely from GridForge
based on SourceForge at forge.ogf.org to Redmine at redmine.ogf.org .  To
cut down on the problem of spam registrations that were a nuisance on the
old GridForge, we are asking people to please register for a new account
and to choose a good access password to go with it when registering to
the new server.

At this point, since things have gone fairly well, I would like to encourage
all work groups and community groups in OGF to make the switch.  As
we develop more experience with the tools, more features may be added.
 For now, all of the basic functionality needed to support an OGF
group is there.  For groups that use repositories, you may notice
that the default version control system used on the new system is git,
not subversion.  While Redmine does support svn and it can be installed,
so far all of the groups that have moved have been happy to convert to
using git, which is presently much more popular with developers.  If
this causes difficulty for your group, please let us know.  A tool
does exist to do the migration of content from svn to git to make this
transition easier for your group.

Send any questions to ogf-it@ogf.org or, in the case of organizational
issues, to gfsg@ogf.org

Thanks to Andre for leading this effort, and to all of the groups that
have made the transition so far.

Alan

Alan Sill, Ph.D

Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center

Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU

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