On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:03:21AM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
Well, the first order of business is to evaluate as many different providers as possible, and build a matrix of what they support, how good the support appears to be, etc.
This is dependent on the versioning system.
True, however things are often not quite so cut and dried; we may find a given service willing or planning to add additional versioning systems.
Other questions: Is the tracker database available in whole somewhere?
We've got a script to download it that someone wrote early on in the project (we had to migrate tracker items from the Sodipodi database). There might be an easier way now.
There will be conversion issues, also with cvs.
Yes
Does someone know if mailing list archives of closed SF projects stay available?
Yes; also, I think we may be able to download or extract the messages for separate hosting.
Bryce