Fw: IBM OSS - Project Migration Instructions

Hi,

I haven't had time to look at these
yet, but wanted to pass them along anyway so I do not delay us in case
you all see problems or have questions.  Let me know if you have any
rather than the oss people......   

Regards, Diane

IBM  Emerging Internet Software Standards



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IBM OSS - Project Migration
Instructions

Hi, 

As you may know, the IBM Open Source project for which you are an administrator
is to be migrated from www-124.ibm.com to the SourceForge.net project hosting
environment.  Please review the following procedures regarding your
project's migration and  take the necessary actions described in the
details below.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding the
migration of your project, please contact Donna Milling at .
 Thank you. 

Assisted Migration - Project Migration Roadmap:

Redirects 

        

Redirects for projects to be hosted on any server other than www-124.ibm.com
will be implemented by February 21, 2005.  All projects from 

http://oss.software.ibm.com will be redirected via DNS to http://apps.alphaworks.ibm.com
where the projectName (described below) or groupID will be 

captured and used to redirect users to the project’s new hosting environment,
as hosted by SourceForge using the following URL: 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/projectName/.
 All other content will be redirected to http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/,
except for 

projects which are hosted elsewhere from SourceForge.net and provide an
updated URL as to their new hosting environment. 

Time Frame:                February
7, 2005 – February 21, 2005 

Completion Date:        February 21, 2005

Project Migration        

Sourceforge.net currently serves the needs of a vast variety of open source
projects and has a very large open source 

community which can be very beneficial for driving interest and building
a community around any given IBM Open Source technology.  We estimate
that 

40 of the OSS projects contain enough data to qualify for migration to
Sourceforge.net.  The
instructions below are provided to help your project 

determine the scope of the migration from DeveloperWorks to SourceForge.net.
Additional instructions will be provided post-migration.  If you have

questions or concerns regarding these instructions or the migration process,
please contact Donna Milling at .

Time Frame:                February
7, 2005 – February 21, 2005 

Completion Date:        February 21, 2005

**Noteworthy and Related Dates: 

Preliminary Data Migration:              
                  January
17, 2005 

Your Project's Write Functions to Cease on dW:        
February 7, 2005 

Data Migration Completion:              
                  February
18, 2005 

Directions for Creating a Project on SourceForge.net

1.  Creation of a SourceForge.net account  

An account will be created for you by the SourceForge.net team when migrating
projects from www-124.ibm.com to the SF.net hosting environment.  You
will be notified of the account details via email.  If
you already have an account using the same email address as your DeveloperWorks
account, that existing account will be used.
        

2.  Registration of your project with SourceForge

Your project will be registered with SourceForge.net as part of the migration
tasks performed by the SourceForge.net team.   The necessary information
(described below, will be collected from the current hosting environment
on www-124.ibm.com).   

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 

Regards,

Mayank Dhamija

IBM alphaWorks Development

External Line: (408)863-4369

T/L: 560-4369



http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com