Jay Faulkner <j...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 3/21/2025 6:42 PM, Ionen Wolkens wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 02:32:31PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, everyone. >>> >>> 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. >> >>> 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). > > > 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?
We can even inject a news item for the repository. > > -JayF
