[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github (original) (raw)

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 00:10:53 CET 2014

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Nov 30, 2014, at 09:54 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote:

>- Migrating "data" from GitHub is easy. There are free-as-in-freedom >tools to do it and the only cost is the time it would take to monitor >the process Extracting data may be easy, but migrating it is a different story. As the Mailman project has seen in trying to migrate from Confluence to Moin, there is a ton of very difficult work involved after extracting the data. Parsing the data, ensuring that you have all the bits you need, fitting it into the new system's schema, working out the edge cases, adapting to semantic differences and gaps, ensuring that all the old links are redirected, and so on, were all exceedingly difficult[*].

The GitHub API is currently at Version 3. These may be useful references for the PEP:

https://developer.github.com/v3/ https://developer.github.com/libraries/ https://github.com/jaxbot/github-issues.vim (:Gissues)

https://developer.github.com/webhooks/

There are integrations for many platforms here:

https://zapier.com/developer/documentation/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/apps/#sort=popular&filter=developer-tools

Even converting between two FLOSS tools is an amazing amount of work. Look at what Eric Raymond did with reposurgeon to convert from Bazaar to git. It's a good thing that your data isn't locked behind a proprietary door, for now. That's only part of the story. But also, because github is a closed system, there's no guarantee that today's data-freeing APIs will still exist, continue to be functional for practical purposes, remain complete, or stay at parity with new features. Cheers, -Barry [*] And our huge gratitude goes to Paul Boddie for his amazing amount of work on the project.

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