Open Stack

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.

> 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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