hi there. i've also noticed there are teething problems with the snv to git convertion. i have found that lazarus gitlab is setup without problems, but when i do a search for FPC, it doesn't exist...is there a reason for that
As I said before...
The life time of the server came to an end. Since the underlying server was in bad need for maintenance, the contract for it had been cancelled. That was quite a while back. (From what I understand, I do/did not hold the contract).
The plan was to be done in time (on the 14th/15th).
But as things go, that did not work out.
We had to move the start of transferring to the weekend after that.
And then conversion took unplanned longer.
As you saw on the lazarus git, it was published and taken down again.
I had tested the process several times.
But only after we went live, I found that some older commit, well hidden had gone wrong. So I needed to start the Lazarus git over. It took Michael and me 3 days to get it back online.
The fpc repro has a lot more work to do (because they are recovering some of the data, they had lost when they moved from cvs to svn). (At least that is what I understand).
So unfortunately the old server went out of its live time, before we where ready.
And as explained by Bart: Neither of us is doing such type of tasks on a regular basis. All the planing, communication, testing .... All that was learning by doing.
So, yes, it was by no way perfect. And if we would have had all the experience (that we gained) when we started, then a lot would have been done differently.