From: Mitchell Dorrell <mwd@psc.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:46:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHqckJ28UUeMhmzB_X_qgFj8JESTE=3OHG6+30X81ouJNGQTug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories,
> except for gentoo and guru.
>
>
> Over 10 years ago, I've started the repository mirror & CI project.
> What started as a bunch of shell scripts on a user-donated server, has
> organically grown into a bigger bunch of shell scripts managed by Infra.
> Nevertheless, it's still a bunch of hacks glued together.
>
> Things don't work well all the time. Sometimes stuff randomly crashes,
> and I have to SSH and remove local checkouts to make it work. Sometimes
> the git repositories used to transfer logs grow so big they kill infra.
> Often some repository starts crashing this or another part and needs to
> be disabled.
>
> To be honest, I have no energy to keep maintaining this. I'm really
> tired of having to deal with stuff crashing and spamming my mailbox with
> failure mails. I'm tired of having to go through all the infra hoops
> just to disable another repository that can't work for one reason or
> another. In fact, I'm even tired that whenever people add new
> repositories to api.gentoo.org, I have to go through that idiotic GitHub
> clickety-click UI to stop receiving notifications for everything that
> happens in these repositories.
>
> So what I'm thinking about is winding most of the project down. We'd
> stop mirroring third-party repositories, and remove most of gentoo-
> mirror organization. What I'd like to leave is mirroring of gentoo
> and guru repositories, since these two we have control of, and are very
> important to Gentoo users.
>
> So, well, unless someone convinces me otherwise, I'm going to disable
> all other repositories over the next weekend, and remove their mirrors.
> Gentoo and GURU will still be mirrored, and CI will keep running
> as usual.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>
>
I've been following the discussion, but I still don't know enough to have
an opinion. Why was this infrastructure created in the first place?
-MD
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-24 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-21 13:32 [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors Michał Górny
2025-03-21 14:12 ` orbea
2025-03-21 14:44 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-21 23:50 ` orbea
2025-03-22 7:01 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-22 13:47 ` orbea
2025-03-21 14:12 ` Alexey Sokolov
2025-03-21 14:44 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-21 14:47 ` Alexey Sokolov
2025-03-21 14:55 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-22 1:42 ` Ionen Wolkens
2025-03-22 15:20 ` Jay Faulkner
2025-03-22 15:33 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-22 20:35 ` Richard Freeman
2025-03-22 15:38 ` Sam James
2025-03-22 15:46 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-23 9:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Anna Vyalkova
2025-03-23 10:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Gerion Entrup
2025-03-23 17:50 ` Ionen Wolkens
2025-03-24 12:46 ` Mitchell Dorrell [this message]
2025-03-25 20:51 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-25 23:15 ` Jay Faulkner
2025-03-26 6:01 ` Michał Górny
2025-03-26 16:00 ` Jay Faulkner
2025-03-28 8:27 ` Florian Schmaus
2025-03-30 8:11 ` Michael Mair-Keimberger
2025-03-30 9:34 ` Tim Harder
2025-03-30 11:24 ` Florian Schmaus
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