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authorThomas ten Cate <ttencate@gmail.com>2011-05-13 08:31:18 -0700
committerThomas ten Cate <ttencate@gmail.com>2011-05-13 08:31:18 -0700
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Merge pull request #1 from albertz/master
multiple trackers. more safety. more output
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-sf2github README
-================
-
-`sf2github` is a Python program that reads an XML export from a SourceForge project and pushes this data to GitHub via its REST API.
-
-The script is currently very incomplete and barely tested. If it works for you, great; if not, fix it up and send me a pull request! Currently, only migration of tracker issues is partly implemented, and there's no error handling.
-
-Also note that the GitHub API is quite slow, taking about 5 seconds per request on my machine and internet connection. Migration of a large project will take a while.
-
-Issue migration
----------------
-
-What works (for me):
-
-* SF tracker issues become GitHub tracker issues.
-* Comments on SF become comments in GitHub.
-* Groups and categories on SF both become labels on GitHub.
-* Issues with a status that is exactly the text "Closed" or "Deleted" will be closed on GitHub.
-
-Limitations:
-
-* Only a single tracker is supported, though this could be easily fixed.
-* All issues and comments will be owned by the project's owner on GitHub, but mention the SF username of the original submitter.
-* There's some rubbish in the comment text sometimes (Logged In, user_id, Originator) but this is in the SF XML export.
-* There are encoding errors in the SF export of (at least) comments. Non-ASCII characters are encoded with UTF-8, then decoded (interpreted) as CP1252, and those code points gets encoded as XML entities. The script does not work around this. See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5291081/how-did-sourceforge-maim-this-unicode-character
-
-Code migration
---------------
-
-This script doesn't help you to migrate code from SF's Subversion to GitHub. However, I found the following page helpful in doing that: http://help.github.com/svn-importing/
-
-Usage
------
-
-Run the `issues.py` script and it will print instructions. Basically, if your SF XML export is in `foo.xml`, your GitHub username is `john` and your repository is `bar`:
-
- ./issues.py foo.xml john/bar
-
-License
--------
-
-This software is in the public domain. I accept no responsibility for any damage resulting from it. Use at your own risk.
-