Re: Migrating to Salsa

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 01:13:11AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> We need to move everything from Alioth to Salsa some time before the
> end of May.
> 
> There is already a "kernel-team" group on Salsa, and the members of the
> "kernel" group on Alioth have been added to this group.
> 
> Since all our live version control repositories use git, it should be a
> simple and quick process to replicate them on Salsa.  I think what we
> need to do is:
> 
> 1. Agree the date and time to start migration.
> 2. At that time, add hooks on Alioth to disable further writes.
> 3. Start migration.
> 4. Update all references to Alioth:
>    - Configure anonscm.debian.org to forward to Salsa
>    - Update package Vcs fields
>    - Update kernel-handbook text

Look good to me.

> I propose that we start the migration after the point release is done,
> so on Sunday 11th March, starting at 16:00 UTC.

Works for me as well.

Regards,
Salvatore