From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E0CD1581EE for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gentoo.org (bobolink.gentoo.org [140.211.166.189]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: relay-lists.gentoo.org@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72ADF3432F6 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3F81104B4; Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EC111104AB for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:46:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (c144-156.icpnet.pl [85.221.144.156]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45AAA343168; Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Jay Faulkner Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:46:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87tt7l2hze.fsf@gentoo.org> References: <6b358608f6e244cb96ce527ad47b3e0483eaf0c6.camel@gentoo.org> <7783ccc4-9c48-4303-a68a-2e572f815d32@gentoo.org> <87tt7l2hze.fsf@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+OWg6ug+X364FgfHHBOP" User-Agent: Evolution 3.54.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 36eb4def-faac-4488-828a-78cafb63f73f X-Archives-Hash: 80dd4c6e4498c87059b374e68ecb1e53 --=-+OWg6ug+X364FgfHHBOP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 15:38 +0000, Sam James wrote: > Jay Faulkner writes: >=20 > > On 3/21/2025 6:42 PM, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 02:32:31PM +0100, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrot= e: > > > > Hello, everyone. > > > >=20 > > > > TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories= , > > > > except for gentoo and guru. > > > Unfortunate, but just to say that I have nothing to say against > > > dropping these if it's a maintenance burden. > > >=20 > > > > 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. > > > Had one concern but complete removal (rather than keeping mirrors > > > archived) would mostly handle it. Aka so that users can't keep > > > sync'ing with these dead mirrors by mistake (often caused issues when > > > we removed overlays but mirror stayed behind, users wouldn't notice a > > > thing until lacking updates started to break things). > >=20 > >=20 > > In the OpenStack community, we will put a final commit on HEAD of the > > primary branch removing all the content and putting an EOL notice in > > the readme (e.g. https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-lib ). This may > > be a good solution in this case as well, potentially? >=20 > We can even inject a news item for the repository. >=20 I'm thinking of doing a news item in ::gentoo instead. That should have better UX than the same news item duplicated over a hundred repositories. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-+OWg6ug+X364FgfHHBOP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFGBAABCgAwFiEEx2qEUJQJjSjMiybFY5ra4jKeJA4FAmfe21ISHG1nb3JueUBn ZW50b28ub3JnAAoJEGOa2uIyniQOsP0H/R/OWO+E1u0mhGoKE4ZEnfYZCfMroB6p OOGL0UmZpb/WzqSaaplE82IRtLLqJ5youNK0CQEvdg4G8Z+HlAap3DXWJeJUWXi9 gRdTfAvi/jfoiDvWMcVQqOvSrU8yvEKT7+XHmblVND+XF9lfRfLzlcmyP+DpWEqG FH27U02kgUMKXD3txLNt5CnJe8UJjMKxjNnDUc8PqAjXohSXgr0ki7A/pRrfHGWK Tu5FnPiVXr15C1JQuwJQgRBx8Yf+h/1OMrMJrdZx3yVLlAkv9HCvMDvy4DmiVxqc yfrdsX+V5qFjRSQ2w1cOkF/GSEvNmRdMgOeCJbpS4OJI5+dg1IMkR3Y= =ztV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+OWg6ug+X364FgfHHBOP--