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<p>Following the experimentation at <a href="http://redmine.semperpax.com">redmine.semperpax.com</a>,
Merkaartor has now settled in a new home: <a class="external" href="http://merkaartor.be/">http://merkaartor.be</a>.</p>
<p>The root cause of this was the migration of the repository to
gitorious (due to some reluctance from OSM to host more than "root"
projects on their own git repository). <br>From there, it made little
sense to continue using the OSM trac, because of the lack of integration
(and Trac well-known shortcomings when used in a multi-project
environment).<br>Furthermore, the ikiwiki used on <a href="http://merkaartor.org">merkaartor.org</a> made it
difficult to be dynamic (lack of WYSIWYG, use of subversion for
updates, ...) so we needed to move to something else on this side, too.</p>
<p>So we have settled on <a href="http://www.redmine.org/" class="external">Redmine</a> as the backbone of the site. Redmine
provides everything a project like Merkaartor needs in an integrated
fashion.</p>
<p>The reason for the change of domain is plainly because we couldn't
reach the owner of <a href="http://merkaartor.org">merkaartor.org</a>, Bart, the original author of
Merkaartor, who silently left the project a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>I personally wants to thank <strong>Sven</strong> (<strong>Lankes</strong>,
of Fedora fame) who:<br>- Donated the "<a href="http://merkaartor.be">merkaartor.be</a>" domain to the
project<br>- Is hosting the "<a href="http://merkaartor.be">merkaartor.be</a>" site<br>- has handled all
the sysadmin work to have the site up-and-running.</p>
<p>So, on the practical side:<br>- All Trac tickets have been migrated
to redmine.<br>- <em>New</em> tickets opened on <a href="http://trac.openstreetmap.org">trac.openstreetmap.org</a>
won't be taken into account (I'll still monitor it for a while,
redirecting the reporters)<br>- Anyone having opened a merkaartor ticket
on Trac at some point is known on redmine; Just follow the "lost
password" procedure with the email address you used on Trac to access
the new site.<br>- The issues opened on <a href="http://redmine.semperpax.com">redmine.semperpax.com</a> have been
migrated (as were the users)<br>- The Merkaartor project has been
removed from <a href="http://redmine.semperpax.com">redmine.semperpax.com</a><br>- The "<a href="http://merkaartor.org">merkaartor.org</a>" site is
deprecated and will disappear soon.</p>
<p>Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds :-)</p>
<p><strong><em>The Merkaartor team</em></strong></p>
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