[pkg-go] Fwd: Please remove your obsolete repos from alioth *NOW*

[Clément Hermann]

On 30/05/2018 13:08, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Alioth is coming down, and we are listed as still having stuff lying around.
> 
> I checked, and it seems to be mostly backups of migrated stuff, but
> there are also some things that I am not sure if we have migrated them
> completely:
> 
> $ ls -1 /git/pkg-go
> attic
> meta.git
> meta.git.O
> meta.git.O2
> packages
> packages-migrated-to-salsa
> pkg-go.git
> setup-repository
> users
> website-migrated-to-salsa.git

<snip>
> I think the `meta.git` repo has not been migrated, but it seems that
> apart from the .mrconfig file, the scripts there are now useless,
> because of the switch to gitlab. What are we going to do about MR? (I
> have never used it)

I use mr in the perl team, and I tried to use it but even before the
migration, it was unusable as-is: some functions are called in the
global mrconfig without being defined.

If we want to use MR, there is definitely some work involved.

MR is very useful when you need to check out all repo for mass
modifications. if you only work on a handful of package at a time, of
course, it's a lot less useful.

That said, I don't think it would be very hard to adapt the existing
configs, maybe stealing some more from the perl team. I could do it, if
there are people interested in using mr. For now I only work on a small
numbers of go packages, so I don't have much incentive to do so if I'm
the only user ;)




> Finally, the `pkg-go.git` repo seems empty, the `meta.git.O` and
> `meta.git.O2` dirs are backups, and the attic seems safe to remove too.
> 
> Shall we finish killing all this?
I'd say yes, of course I have no idea about the user dir and I'll leave
those to the people involved.

If we want to try to have a working mr in the future, we could keep the
meta repo (692K worth of data). I cloned it anyway, just in case.


Cheers,

nodens