<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone for the details, and especially aviau for getting the technical bits sorted out.<div><br></div><div>Let’s also consider the social aspect of this migration, though. I suggest we send out an announcement regarding the migration timeline and expected impact.</div><div><br></div><div>More specifically:</div><div>• Please outline how one can easily update their git working directories to switch to the new remote address. Perhaps there is a git or sed oneliner we could use?</div><div>• Let’s give people at least 7 days notice to activate their account on GitLab, and to voice any feedback or concerns they might have regarding the migration.</div><div>• It might be good to send a targeted reminder to people who are in the pkg-go team on alioth, but not yet on GitLab.</div><div><br></div><div>I’d be happy to review any draft announcement you come up with.</div><div><br>Thanks!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Joerg Jaspert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joerg@ganneff.de" target="_blank">joerg@ganneff.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 14919 March 1977, Michael Stapelberg wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> How do we ensure that people are redirect from alioth to salsa? I think<br>
> some redirection support is underway or already working, so it would be<br>
> good to set up these redirects.<br>
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</span>MergeRequest in <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://salsa.debian.org/<wbr>salsa/AliothRewriter</a><br>
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> Redirects only cover the web interface part, so what do we do with the old<br>
> git repositories? Could we mark them read-only, to prevent accidental<br>
> pushes to the wrong repository?<br>
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</span>Yes. Thats the common way.<br>
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bye, Joerg<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best regards,<br>Michael</div>
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