On 2021-08-03 13:02:45 +0100 (+0100), Sean Mooney wrote:
it might make more sense to eventually move this to somethign hosted by opendev rather then relying on the good nature of the comunity to run it. [...]
We did try at one time some years ago, but the service was unmanageable (required a restart to update any of the user data, which took hours and up to a day to re-query everything and come back online) and buggy (left hung SSH connections in its wake until the max sessions limit enforced for the Gerrit API kicked in and blocked it from reconnecting). We had volunteers lined up to solve these problems, and even some patches already proposed to start addressing them, but could not get the maintainers to review that work. Eventually we gave up, scrapped the idea, and tore down our server for it. Unless those issues have been addressed, we'd need new volunteers to get the service in shape... but even so, I'm hesitant to suggest OpenDev take on maintaining new services when we're actively trying to shed responsibilities so we can focus on improving services the community relies strongly on to get things done. -- Jeremy Stanley