[Alioth-staff-replacement] alioth deprecation - next steps

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2018-04-17 13:00:56, Alexander Wirt 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!

FWIW, I've updated the wiki docs with the above information.

https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth?action=diff&rev1=102&rev2=103

https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa?action=diff&rev1=22&rev2=23

A.

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