[ocaml-infra] Github down again

[Sylvain Le Gall]

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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