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[Aaron Wells <1430567@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our replacement strategy has shifted to the following:

1. We're going to set up a git repository at git.mahara.org. For the
time being, this will be a gitlab instance hosted by Catalyst IT.
Potentially we could change this to other software in the future, but
the important thing is that if it's under the "git.mahara.org" domain,
then if we do need to change things in the future, we can do so without
having to direct people to a new address.

2. We're also going to continue to mirror the Mahara source code to
gitlab.com, github.com, and git.nzoss.org.nz (and potentially other code
sharing websites).

3. Until git.mahara.org is ready (which should be in the next week or
two), we'll use git.nzoss.org.nz as our official git repository.

4. I have deleted all the Mahara projects from gitorious, and replaced
them with a placeholder message telling people to go to
https://mahara.org to find out the new code location. This was done so
that any automated scripts that are reading from the gitorious
repository, will fail loudly, rather than silently continue to read the
old code (assuming that gitorious does go into read-only mode and
continues to server everything from the same old address. The details on
the read-only announcement were vague.)

5. I left the mahara-contrib project in place on gitorious, though,
because that contains code contributed by third-parties, and I don't
want to tell them all to move everything.

Cheers,
Aaron

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1430567

Title:
  Migrate away from Gitorious before its May 2015 shutdown

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  GitLab has aquired Gitorious and will shut the site down at the end of
  May 2015: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-
  gitorious/

  "Starting today, Gitorious.org users can import their existing
  projects into GitLab.com by clicking the “Import projects from
  Gitorious.org” link when creating a new project. Gitorious.org will
  stay online until the end of May 2015 to give people time to migrate
  their repositories. Existing users of Gitorious on-premises can
  contact sales@xxxxxxxxxx for more information."

  Mahara's "official" main code repository is still on Gitorious, as are
  many of our utility repositories (the manual, deployment scripts,
  etc). We also have scripts that reference the gitorious address, and
  project listings that tell people to access our source code at
  gitorious. Apparently all of this will need to change before the end
  of May.

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