new salsa team: nvidia-team

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Sat Jan 20 17:43:22 UTC 2018


On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 17:14 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 18:08 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > On 2018-01-20 12:52, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > Did you have time to make progress on migrating n-g-d from svn to
> > > git?
> > > Or should we start looking for alternative hosting, given Alioth
> > > will
> > > be shut down in April?
> > 
> > I hope to be ready at that time ... (and have done all the
> > (old)stable-pu stuff first).
> 
> Anything I can do for the -pu stuff?
> 
> > But we need to find a solution for the tarballs. git-annex may be a
> > solution for large files (but I've never tried it). But we still
> > need
> > some storage location ... 50+ GB (more like 70-100GB in 1-2 years),
> > the
> > SVN repo is 41.4 GB right now, before committing CUDA 9.1 ;-)
> > 
> > Andreas
> 
> Right, forgot that the original plan was to keep the tarballs in SVN
> -
> I'll go and look if git LFS is enabled on Salsa - I'm pretty sure
> GitLab supports it.

Did a quick test and it looks like LFS is enabled - committed a binary
file in a non-default branch, pushed - then cloned a different branch
elsewhere and it didn't download the binary until the branch was
checked out.

> Alternatively, maybe script it so that it gets downloaded from
> snapshot.debian.org? Given all the tarballs that we upload end up
> there
> anyway. Not sure how it would look like, just an idea.
> 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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