Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:53): Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:53):@Sean I've heard that there are plans to relocate the main BRLCAD codebase from sourceforge -- is github the destination?
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:29):probably -- don't see any better options at the moment ... but this is something that will be done very carefully to ensure we preserve our entire project history
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:29):reason for asking @Mahdi ?
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 18:55):Just that coming into this organization I expected to find a Github repo but was introduced to sourceforge instead. If there's anything us students can do to help with the transitioning process I'm sure we'd be glad to help.
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:58):sourceforge used to be where 95% of projects lived just 10 years ago
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:58):over the past 10 years, many have migrated to github so now it's about 85% or so on github, 10 % elsewhere, and 5% still on sourceforge
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:59):we are integrated with so many services and have such a large repo, that the main codebase has remained there so far
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:59):BRL-CAD exceeds GitHubs hosting size limits
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:59):too big
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:00):so having a conversation with them about whether they would allow us to migrate was a discussion I had to have with them -- we've since had that conversation and they're fine with us moving there
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:00):so now it's just a matter of making sure we migrate everything properly which just takes a lot of careful review and testing
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 19:03):Right. I would figure that BRL-CAD is historically significant enough that the Github admins would be okay with it. I'm guessing a complete migration could take over an year given the number of people currently working on the process.
caleb parks (Jan 07 2018 at 19:04):just out of curiosity, how big is the BRL-CAD repository?
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:04):it depends what you count, but a single checkout is about 2-3GB
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:05):that's obviously not the entire history, but it's also not the compressed size too
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 19:05):Does that include all of the branches? Like the core interface?
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:05):I think entire history uncompressed is something like 50-100GB .. I forget the actual amount
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:05):no, not counting the other repos
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:05):they're not that big
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:06):(other than them including all of Qt and boost...)
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 19:06):entire history compressed is much smaller -- I want to say it's in the 1-2GB range compressed but I could be totally wrong on that
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