On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi, > > On Do 26 Apr 2018 10:52:41 CEST, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > > > > On 26 April 2018 at 10:21, Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 17 April 2018 at 13:00, Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> wrote: > > > >> > Hi, > > > >> > > > > >> > as you should be aware, alioth.debian.org will be decommissioned with > > > >> > the EOL of wheezy, which is at the end of May. The replacement for > > > >> > the main part of alioth, git, is alive and out of beta, you know it > > > >> > as salsa.debian.org. If you did not move your git repository yet, > > > >> > hurry up, time is running out. > > > >> > > > > >> > The other important service from the alioth set, lists, moved to a > > > >> > new host and is now live at https://alioth-lists.debian.net [1]. > > > >> > All public list archives moved over too and will continue to exist > > > >> > under the old URL. > > > >> > > > > >> > ## decommissioning timeline > > > >> > > > > >> > 01.05.18: DISABLE registration of new users on alioth. Until > > > an improved SSO (GSOC Project, see [2]) is ready, new user > > > registrations > > > >> > needed for SSO services will be handled manually. > > > More details on this will follow in a seperate announcement. > > > >> > 10.-13.05.18: darcs, bzr and mercurial repositories will be > > > exported as tarballs and made available readonly from a new archive > > > host, > > > >> > details on that will follow. > > > >> > 17.-20.05.18: During the Mini-DebConf Hamburg any existing cron > > > jobs will be turned off, websites still on alioth will be disabled. > > > >> > 31.05.18: All remaining repositories (cvs, svn and git) will be > > > archived similar to the ones above. > > > >> > The host moszumanska, the home of alioth, will go offline! > > > >> > > > >> Could the steps including taking VCS repos offline be offset by at > > > >> least two months? There are too many packages not yet migrated to > > > >> Salsa or to Git in general, and completing that by the end of May is > > > >> putting too much pressure on the maintainers. > > > > Nope, we announced that months, if not years ago. > > > > > > That doesn’t seem like a reasonable reply. What was announced is one > > > thing, but the plans have to be adjusted to the reality, which is that > > > you cannot switch off the VCS hosting by the end of May. > > > It is. The plans were announced, I blocked the dates (I am even on vacation > > for that) and the system is EOL with end of may. It will go down then. > > Migrating Git repos from Alioth to Salsa is doable for most packaging teams > in a day or two (the Javascript team migrated 1024 packages on one day)... > > However, as one of the late bummers, I'd also love to have Vcs services > available with read-only status for some more time. But, alas. in fact they are read-only, just not directly usable. Alex
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