On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Dirk Thomas <dthomas@osrfoundation.org> wrote:

On 01.10.2013 11:44, Jack O'Quin wrote:

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Dirk Thomas <dthomas@osrfoundation.org <mailto:dthomas@osrfoundation.org>> wrote:

    Tully has announced on ros-users that everybody should migrate repositories away from kforge.ros.org <http://kforge.ros.org> / code.ros.org <http://code.ros.org>
    (http://lists.ros.org/__pipermail/ros-users/2013-__September/067953.html <http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2013-September/067953.html>).

    Simply because we have (nearly) no control over these servers anymore and they might go away anytime.

Doesn't OSRF control the ros.org <http://ros.org> DNS names? Would OSU host those repos?

Yes, OSRF does control ros.org by now.
But we do not host any repository via ros.org.
You should migrate them to available hosting platforms like GitHub, BitBucket, SourceForge, <fill in whatever you like>.

    If the repos have not yet been migrated I can only advise every maintainer to grab their code and put it somewhere else or it might suddenly disappear...


When it does, a lot of Electric and Fuerte users are going to be very unhappy. And, the ROS wiki will be badly broken.

If you have any suggestions to avoid that please let us know.

How about making a read-only copy of those repositories on the OSU servers and redirecting "https://code.ros.org/svn" there? That way the information will not be lost and the wiki will not get broken.

Anyone wanting to modify one of those packages to make a bug fix, for example, would need to copy it somewhere else before making the change, then re-release it from there. Some of them might even remember to update rosdistro accordingly.

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 joq

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