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Subject: Fw: IBM OSS - Project Migration Instructions
| Mayank Dhamija/San Jose/IBM
01/14/2005 06:59 PM |
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Information that will be registered with SF.net as part of the project migration:
a. Project name (shortname). 3 - 15 lower-case alphanumeric characters that are used to uniquely identify your project everywhere. (Not modifiable once the name has been created). This serves the same purpose as the project name on OSS. You may use the same OSS name or change it. If you would like to change the project name, please notify Donna Milling immediately (before the migration start date of February 7, 2004).
b. Project title (actual name). 40 characters maximum. A more descriptive name than the one discussed in step a above. As on OSS, this is the descriptive text that appears on the title of the SourceForge pages.
c. Short description. 10 - 255 characters of information that describes your project.
d. Business justification. 200 characters - 10 KB of text which explains why your project is justified in a business sense.
e. OpenSource License. The Open Source license under which your project is currently available.
3. Configuration of Trove categorization. This categorization shows up just under your project's short description and provides a lot of useful metadata about your project. Information about your project stored within the Trove will be available via your Project Summary page, in search results and the Software Map. It is important to categorize your project within the Trove since this is the primary way that SourceForge.net site users will find out about your project. Trove categorization can be performed once your project has been migrated to the SourceForge.net hosting environment.
4. Configuring the rest of your project. Your project will be configured as it currently exists on www-124.ibm.com. All data available for features utilized in the IBM OSS hosting environment (including CVS, Mail Lists, Bugs, Patches, News, Web Pages, and Download Files), and also available on SF.net, for your project will be migrated and implemented during the migration period. Existing stats data will also not be migrated. Your existing maillists will be migrated to SourceForge as-is. However, SourceForge.net provides a feature for hiding maillist postings, so that you may later set undesirable posts to not display.
5. Webpages
Once your account has been created and your project's web content is exported
to the SF.net hosting environment, you will be supplied with your account
details. Using these details, you may log in to the SF.net
hosting environment via SSH and edit your webpages as needed. Please
ensure that the paths for your web pages are relative. Else, the
pages may not function properly. Also, header files which may be
used for your project web pages, will forwarded to you within the next
few days. Please use the provided header for your web content
as suggested so that we may maintain a uniform look for all IBM OSS projects
hosted on SF.net. We encourage you to perform these tasks as early
as possible, once your account information is sent to you, so that visitors
to your project in the SF.net hosting environment may be able to access
your web pages without any problems. Please refer to the 'Helpful
Links and Contact Information' section below for further details regarding
SSH access to SF.net.
Note: All elements of your project, including mailing lists, CVS repository items, Bugs, Patches, etc. will be migrated to SourceForge.net as part of the service provided by the SF.net team. *In order for the transition to be manageable, we encourage you to discontinue write operations to your project between February 7, 2005 and February 18, 2005 in the developerWorks project hosting environment. This will ensure that we can provide a smooth transition between hosting environments in a timely manner. All elements modified in the IBM OSS hosting environment during and after this time period will not be transferred to SourceForge.net.
6. Data Backup. Please
ensure that you back up your CVS repository and web content on a regular
basis. SourceForge.net currently does not provide backup services
for these elements. SourceForge.net, provides backup services
solely for use in the event of system restoration; they do not provide
per-project on-demand restore.
Helpful Links and Contact Information
https://sourceforge.net/docs/
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=766&group_id=1
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2441&group_id=1
https://sourceforge.net/docs/B01/
If you have any questions or concerns during the migration (or post migration)
of your project to SourceForge.net, please contact Donna Milling at dmilling@us.ibm.com
Regards,
Mayank Dhamija
IBM alphaWorks Development
External Line: (408)863-4369
T/L: 560-4369
mdhamij@us.ibm.com
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com
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