[ocaml-infra] Github down again

[Sylvain Le Gall]

Just realize that maybe I was not clear on a very simple thing:

The point is not to use the Forge VCS repositories infrastructure,
this is just to create a group of user and use the fact that you can
have cronjob with scripts running. You can just consider this as
"hosting" the group and have a place to create, run script and have
the result visible (usually on YOURPROJECT.forge.ocamlcore.org but
injecting an alias from git.ocaml.org to
YOURPROJECT.forge.ocamlcore.org is a 2 minutes work).

Is it more clear ?

Am I still missing something ?

Cheers
Sylvain

2013/11/1 Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net>:
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> From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net>
> Date: 2013/11/1
> Subject: Re: [ocaml-infra] Github down again
> To: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org>
>
>
> 2013/11/1 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org>:
>> I'm a little confused -- the intention behind git.ocaml.org is to act
>> as a mirror for major OCaml repositories, so putting a dependency on Forge
>> doesn't seem right.  What's the goal of the scripts you are talking about
>> below?
>>
>> I'm thinking that we simply specify a list of Git URLs somewhere, and
>> they are picked up by git.ocaml.org to publish as a mirror.  That could
>> include a list exported by the Forge of its projects (that use Git), as
>> well as others on GitHub.
>>
>
> Having a project on the forge will provide:
> - a public list of member of the project (i.e. you know who to ping
> when there is a problem)
> - maintenance of the system hosting your project will be taken care by
> someone else (including e.g. backup, system upgrade)
> - adding a member to the project will be easier (vs if you are hosting
> this on your host, you will have to create a user + add his ssh key)
>
> What is precisely git.ocaml.org ?
>
> If this is a VM or a physical host, I think you will slightly increase
> the TCO of *.ocaml.org. If this is a virtual host inside OCamlLab, you
> may have concern to add external contributor. The benefit to have it
> separate is that if github and the OCaml forge will be down at the
> same time, you still have no problem.
>
> But all in all, the benefit of hosting it on the forge is not huge,
> this may just be convenient for allowing other people to take care of
> it and getting rid of some system maintainance. So I am not pushing
> hard on this, I just think it is a good idea.
>
> The scheme to synchronize will be the same in both case (cronjob +
> list of url + a shell script).
>
> Does it make sense to you ?
>
>> -anil
>>
>> On 31 Oct 2013, at 13:21, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the best place to have this kind of mirror is in Forge (but I
>>> think you agree if I understand you correctly).
>>>
>>> Proposal:
>>> - create a forge.ocamlcore.org project called "github-mirror"
>>> - have a main git repository (in github or in the forge) that contains
>>> a file "github-url-to-mirror"
>>>
>>> In a cronjob on ssh.ocamlcore.org:
>>> - checkout the main git repository
>>> - loop over the entries of github-url-to-mirror and check them out in
>>> /home/group/github-mirror/gitroot/
>>>
>>> For the nice GitLab interface, contact me so that we can install the
>>> required DB and ruby packages. However you'll probably have to install
>>> gitlab by yourself, except if you know where I can find a debian
>>> package for it, and point it to /home/group/github-mirror/gitroot...
>>>
>>> User signup -> agree that it should be disabled.
>>>
>>> Does it make sense ?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Sylvain
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/10/31 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org>:
>>>> I took a quick shot a trying out GitLab to act as a mirror.  This is *very* experimental, but here's what it looks like on git.ocaml.org:
>>>>
>>>> http://git.ocaml.org/ocaml-compiler/ocaml/commits/master
>>>> (I didn't set this up on a staging domain due to the pain of reconfiguration).
>>>>
>>>> There's only one project on there at a moment: a static checkout of the OCaml Git mirror, but I can script up a proper GitHub/Forge mirror quite easily from this.  I'm inclined to disable user signups for this and make it a pure mirror, though.
>>>>
>>>> -anil
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