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On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:
> On 2015-11-30 07:58, Sandro Mathys wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We (MidoNet) would like to move to OpenStack infrastructure rather
>> sooner than later. As part of this, we'd obviously like to move to
>> OpenStack gerrit, from GitHub/GerritHub. However, we're looking for a
>> way to do so with as little disruption as possible. Most notably, we'd
>> like our upstream repo to keep working (in read-only, at least). Can
>> this be achieved somehow?
>>
>> Looking for an answer, I stumbled upon the "upstream" setting in
>> project-config/gerrit/projects.yaml but the information I could find
>> on that is very shallow. Can you explain what exactly this does,
>> please? i.e. is the upstream repo only used for the initial import or
>> will it be kept as upstream repo?
>
>
> Upstream is a one time import.
>
> You can keep your original repo, leaving it as read-only after merging a
> commit that points to the new location sounds like a good idea.

Except it would go stale after that, and that would cause us some
trouble in the migration period. Is it maybe possible to mirror the
gerrit repo to our GitHub repo in addition to the other two mirrors
(git.openstack.org and openstack/midonet on GitHub)?

Thanks,
Sandro

>> Also, I learned that GitHub enables redirects that would serve our
>> purpose, but only if the repo is moved (rather than forked or
>> recreated). Is it possible to move midonet/midonet to
>> openstack/midonet before turning openstack/midonet into a mirror of
>> OpenStack gerrit's openstack/midonet repo?
>
>
> AFAIK we cannot move,
>
> Andreas
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