Hi!
Over the last years, the projects.vdr-developer.org site was hosted on a server sponsored by Xeatre.tv. This server will now go offline on June, 7'th.
Currently there are about 10 projects with activity in the last 12 months.
I haven't made a final decision on how to proceed, but I'm leaning towards taking the site offline. In this case I will archive the git repositories on gitlab or github and possibly keep a read-only instance of Redmine on my private vServer for a while.
Let me know, what you think. If there are many comments in favor of keeping the site online, I'm sure I can find a solution.
BR,
Tobias
In the end each individual developer has to decide where he wants to continue his development.
Years ago a small group of VDR users already created a possible alternative here:
https://vdr-projects.github.io/ https://github.com/vdr-projects
This GitHub organization has a similar goal as projects.vdr-developer.org had. Somewhat "organize" VDR related development and (if the developer wants that) hosting repositories in context of this GitHub organization to make it possible to hand over the whole project to a new maintainer if the current maintainer, for whatever reason, no longer continues to maintain his project for a considerable amount of time or actively abandons it.
If one of the developers, who is still active on projects.vdr-developer.org, wants to continue his work in context of the vdr-projects GitHub organization, then I could migrate his project over. Best starting point for this would be to create an Issue here:
https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-projects.github.io/issues
Then I would also directly have the GitHub user name to give full permissions on the newly created project.
Manuel
On 24.05.22 21:33, Tobi wrote:
I find it regularly useful, and refer to the pages from some of the plugins I use. So sad to see these things that look thousands of hours to create and debug now falling by the wayside. And once you get used to it, the Redmine markdown is actually quite a good workmanlike solution for documenting stuff, a lot better than GitHub typical pages anyway. Pity to lose that. A big vote for keeping it from me !
I was contemplating a new release of my transcoder (https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert/wiki), but perhaps that will need to wait. Quite a few additional features ready.
cheers
Richard
On 24/05/2022 20:33, Tobi wrote:
On 25.05.22 20:11, Richard F wrote:
Out of curiosity I had a look at how Redmine syntax looks like and for me this looked a lot like "not Markdown". I did some search and the syntax seems to be actually called "Textile": https://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/41244
And there even exists a way to convert this to actual Markdown automatically: https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-to-markdown/
I did a try with the pandoc "try it out" page and this seems to work just fine: https://pandoc.org/try/
GitHub Wikis (and GitHub pages, too) use actual Markdown and there is a nice online editor to have direct feedback on how the result will look like (you can still write plain Markdown text but get a rendering immediately):
Manuel
On 24.05.22 21:33, Tobi wrote:
Over the last years, the projects.vdr-developer.org site was hosted on a server sponsored by Xeatre.tv. This server will now go offline on June, 7'th.
At least for now it still seems to run...
I have not checked in detail but I think most of Redmine is already archived by archive.org.
If you have a definitive date where the server will shut down, then I could make sure that all repos are archived over to https://github.com/vdr-projects where many projects are already mirrored to (many probably outdated as at some point the automated mirror service was disabled).
Manuel
Hello!
The projects.vdr-developer.org server has been shut down tonight. RIP!
I will provide a readonly-mirror of the Redmine projects, tickets and downloads as well as all the git repositories on:
https://vdr-projects.e-tobi.net https://vdr-projects.e-tobi.net/git
This is still work in progress, but I will have everything up and running by the end of the week.
BR, Tobias
RIP as you say, but many thanks for keeping it going r/o. I'm actually still maintaining vdr-convert for my own use + using it quite a lot. I plan to recover the wiki pages which represented quite a lot of work. Has code been copied to github ? Who's owning / maintaining it there ?
Thanks
On 7/07/2022 0:59, Tobi wrote:
Am 07.07.22 um 17:02 schrieb Richard F:
Has code been copied to github ? Who's owning / maintaining it there ?
Please use this
https://vdr-projects.github.io/
as a first info page. Although this list has not been updated, vdr-convert has been mirrored to https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-convert
If you want to add more code etc.. place a pull request, or "want your repo back", tell us on
https://www.vdr-portal.de/forum/index.php?thread/135173-migration-von-projec...
what your plans are.
Bye
Martin
If this helps: Heres the vdr-convert wiki exported via the redmine to gitlab migrator, including the full edit history as a git repo:
https://psitransfer.home.e-tobi.net/35312b371c42
Tobias
On 07.07.22 17:02, Richard F wrote:
On 07.07.22 17:02, Richard F wrote:
If you like, I could try to import the Wiki pages, Tobi has exported, to https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-convert
I think all repos should be mirrored into context of https://github.com/vdr-projects where they now more or less stay unchanged as long as no one provides pull requests, patches, or "wants his project back".
If you like to maintain your project here: https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-convert then I could make you the owner of this repo. But it would also be totally OK if you prefer to host somewhere else. In this case I would replace the repository description with information about where the project is maintained and mark the whole repo as "archived" so no none thinks that this is the official home of the project.
Manuel
Hi Richard,
Sorry for the late response. I finally found the time to port over your wiki pages.
I've sent you an invite that you just have to accept. This should give you full permissions on the repository.
Unfortunately I was late for downloading the files, shared by Tobi. So I tried to find a simple way to port the wiki pages without this.
If someone else wants to port wiki pages: Forget about pandoc. It tries to migrate everything but the kitchen sink including class names used by redmine internally. It sucks to edit all that out.
The surprisingly easy way to port wiki page content:
- Copy the whole wiki page content on the readonly mirror hosted by Tobi - Open https://stackedit.io/ - Click "START WRITING" there - Now delete the whole example markdown on the left side - Paste the copied wiki content - StackEdit converts the pasted content to surprisingly nice markdown - Now do minor fixes like adding code blocks, fix links, ... - Copy the resulting markdown over to whatever hosting platform you like
Manuel
On 10.07.22 22:20, Richard F wrote:
Just a small follow up. I've also fixed the links in your Readme.txt and as your syntax actually is valid markdown, I renamed it to "README.md" to show how the project landing page can look like if the markdown is actually parsed as such.
Feel free to drop my commits if you don't like it.
Manuel
On 31.07.22 11:04, Manuel Reimer wrote:
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