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

Clark Boylan cboylan at sapwetik.org
Thu May 30 16:00:20 UTC 2019


On Thu, May 30, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> 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?

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?

If you provide us with the canonical list of things to archive I think we can probably script that up or do lots of clicking depending on the size of the list I guess.

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



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