[R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

[Brian G. Peterson]

Kevin,

I can't speak to whether R-Forge is dead, we migrated our projects to
github a long time ago.

The most straightforward answer for R packages in git repositories is
to use separate git projects.  we were even able to import the entire
SVN history and r-forge issue history to github for each of our r-forge
projects when we migrated. The only major complexity that I recall was
creating a table mapping svn contributors to github users (where
available).

If you want to do it all in one git repository, I strongly suggest that
you *still* import all the svn history, but that you do it in one
directory per project, since this is required by `R CMD build`.  We
sometimes use this 'one package per directory' approach in some of our
private repositories at work.  In this case, if you use an IDE like
RStudio, you'll still create separate *RStudio* projects in each
directory, so that you can build, install, test, etc each package from
the IDE, but you can use a single repository for all of it.

Your future self will thank you for having full version control history
of all the "Olde" (tm) versions.

Best of luck.  - Brian

see reference below about importing an svn repo to git:


Ref:
https://docs.github.com/en/migrations/importing-source-code/using-the-command-line-to-import-source-code/importing-a-subversion-repository

-- 
Brian G. Peterson
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On Mon, 2024-07-01 at 18:04 -0400, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been maintaining packages in R-Forge for many tears. Last week
> I 
> sent an email to r-forge using r-project.org to report problems with the
> build 
> process. It appears that any changes I have pushed to R-Forge over 
> approximately the last two months have resulted in the package
> remaining 
> in the "Building" state, even though the logs suggest that the
> package 
> built successfully on both LINUX and Windows. (Also, four of the six 
> affected packages only included changes to the man pages to clean up 
> NOTEs from the R cmd checks on old versions at CRAN, where the new 
> versions now happily reside.) I have received no response nor 
> acknowledgement to my email to R-Forge.
> 
> Assuming that R-Forge has finally succumbed to the ravages of
> entropy, 
> does anyone have advice on creating a git project that contains
> multiple 
> R packages? (I really don't want to have to create 20+ new git
> projects, 
> one per package).
> 
> Best,
>     Kevin
> 
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