On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 15:38 +0000, Sam James wrote: > 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. >
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. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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