Sysadmin Load Reduction: Subversion Infrastructure

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 9 de novembre de 2019, a les 21:22:16 CET, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 8:37 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > El dissabte, 9 de novembre de 2019, a les 19:27:07 CET, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 7:18 AM Alexander Potashev <aspotashev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > сб, 9 нояб. 2019 г. в 03:20, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>:
> > > > > This would include the shutdown of WebSVN in particular, which when
> > > > > coupled with the shutdown of our two CGit instances would also allow
> > > > > for us to eliminate an entire virtual machine from our systems.
> > > >
> > > > Will there be any web interface for SVN after shutdown of WebSVN?
> > > >
> > > > Can we assume https://phabricator.kde.org/source/svn/ remains
> > > > available during the next 10 years?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Phabricator's browser will be retired as part of the shutdown of
> > > Phabricator, which will take place once Gitlab has assumed
> > > responsibility for code hosting and review, and the tasks have been
> > > migrated from Phabricator.
> > >
> > > Should WebSVN be shutdown as well, then there would be no web
> > > interface to our SVN repository.
> >
> > That's not acceptable.
> 
> Mind explaining why?

Because we use it in l10n.kde.org to link to po files.

> Bear in mind that there is a cost both in terms of infrastructure, and
> people time to maintain a service such as WebSVN.

We have money, we don't have to shut down things we use because there is a cost.

Cheers,
  Albert

> This includes having to maintain a mirror of the repository on the
> machine that runs WebSVN, along with the associated infrastructure for
> allowing that mirroring to happen on the master server.
> 
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Albert
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
> 
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> > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure what use case Luigi has in mind, but among Russian l10n
> > > > team we often use WebSVN to refer to specific SVN revisions, for
> > > > example: https://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1555342
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Alexander Potashev
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ben
> > >
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