[ocaml-infra] Github down again

[Amir Chaudhry]

I'm still confused by this. What Anil and Gabriel pointed out makes sense to me (having a mirror of certain repos) and was discussed in the past. You seem to be talking about a method for managing a group of users but I don't actually see why that's necessary here. 

Best wishes,
Amir

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> On 1 Nov 2013, at 11:17, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net> wrote:
> 
> 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>:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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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