On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 08:20 -0700, Jay Faulkner wrote: > 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? >
Not sure. It would mean that `emerge --sync` will replace all ebuilds with a README file that user might not even notice. I suppose an explicit "repository not found" error may be better here. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
