[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Wes Turner]

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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