Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> writes: > So that got us to "It would be nice. It does not work usefully. -> It > won't happen". And basically you can expect another hostname change to > happen *AGAIN* in the future, should we switch from gitlab to > whatever-is-good-then, UNLESS that hypothetical thing is about identical > on the whole layout. THEN one can do a "switchover day is X, all repos > and groups and whatnot will be forcefully migrated then, no user action > needed".
.... which IMO proves that a sophisticated "layout" with namespaces or subdirs is a bad idea for canonical URLs. Why can't we have a flat name space with redirection https://git.debian.org/<package> (or similar) that just redirects to the proper real location within salsa? Our source package names are unique, so there should be no conflicts. That would make the discovery of a certain package *much* easier than the current structured approach. Best Ole
