On 2025-03-21 14:32, Michał Górny wrote:
Hello, everyone.
TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories,
except for gentoo and guru.
Over 10 years ago, I've started the repository mirror & CI project.
What started as a bunch of shell scripts on a user-donated server, has
organically grown into a bigger bunch of shell scripts managed by
Infra.
Nevertheless, it's still a bunch of hacks glued together.
Things don't work well all the time. Sometimes stuff randomly crashes,
and I have to SSH and remove local checkouts to make it work.
Sometimes
the git repositories used to transfer logs grow so big they kill infra.
Often some repository starts crashing this or another part and needs to
be disabled.
To be honest, I have no energy to keep maintaining this. I'm really
tired of having to deal with stuff crashing and spamming my mailbox
with
failure mails. I'm tired of having to go through all the infra hoops
just to disable another repository that can't work for one reason or
another. In fact, I'm even tired that whenever people add new
repositories to api.gentoo.org, I have to go through that idiotic
GitHub
clickety-click UI to stop receiving notifications for everything that
happens in these repositories.
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. What I'd like to leave is mirroring of gentoo
and guru repositories, since these two we have control of, and are very
important to Gentoo users.
So, well, unless someone convinces me otherwise, I'm going to disable
all other repositories over the next weekend, and remove their mirrors.
Gentoo and GURU will still be mirrored, and CI will keep running
as usual.
Hi,
I guess i'm a bit late in this discussion but i wanted to let you know
this would also affect my gentoo qa scripts.
(https://gentooqa.levelnine.at). Right now i'm checking the gentoo,
guru, kde, science and pentoo repositories, syncing the repos from
gentoo-mirror for the pre-created metadata.
While the gentoo repository is probably the most valuable, kde, science
and pentoo checks would be non functional and i probably would have to
remove them. (at least until i update my script to create the metadata
myself..)
I guess it's not a big loss, just wanted to let you know.
Regards
Michael
