[tc][all] Github mirroring (or lack thereof) for unofficial projects

Jim Rollenhagen jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Thu May 30 15:27:10 UTC 2019


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:05 PM Jim Rollenhagen <jim at jimrollenhagen.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:51 PM Adam Spiers <aspiers at suse.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Jim Rollenhagen <jim at jimrollenhagen.com> wrote:
>> >On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:05 PM Paul Belanger <pabelanger at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 08:48:10PM +0200, Roman Gorshunov wrote:
>> >> > Hello Jim, team,
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm from Airship project. I agree with archival of Github mirrors of
>> >> > repositories. One small suggestion: could we have project
>> descriptions
>> >> > adjusted to point to the new location of the source code repository,
>> >> > please? E.g. "The repo now lives at opendev.org/x/y".
>> >> >
>> >> This is something important to keep in mind from infra side, once the
>> >> repo is read-only, we lose the ability to use the API to change it.
>> >>
>> >> From manage-projects.py POV, we can update the description before
>> >> flipping the archive bit without issues, just need to make sure we have
>> >> the ordering correct.
>> >
>> >Agree this is a good idea.
>>
>> Just checking you saw my reply to the same email from Paul?
>>
>>
>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-May/005846.html
>
>
> Sorry, yes I saw it, but then later mis-remembered it. :(
>
>
>>
>>
>> >There's been no objections to this plan for some time now.
>>
>> I might be missing some context, but I *think* my email could be
>> interpreted as an objection based on the reasons listed in it.
>>
>> Also, the understanding I took away from the PTG session was that
>> there was consensus *not* to archive repos, but rather to ensure that
>> mirroring and redirects are set up properly.  However I am of course
>> very willing to be persuaded otherwise.
>>
>> Please could you take a look at that mail and let us know what you
>> think?  Thanks!
>>
>
> So there's two things to do, in this order:
>
> 1) do a proper transfer of the Airship repos
> 2) Archive any other repos on github that are no longer in the openstack
> namespace.
>
> Has the airship team been working with the infra team on getting
> the transfer done? I would think that could be done quickly, and then
> we can proceed with archiving the others.
>

Bumping this thread.

Looks like the airship transfer is done[0], is that correct?

I don't believe step 2 has been done yet; is there someone from
the infra team that can do that or help me do it?

[0] https://github.com/openstack/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=airship&type=&language=

// jim
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