[kde-community] Sunsetting of Infrastructure and the Phabricator migration

[Jeremy Whiting]

Just a note so everyone doesn't need to go google/search this
themselves. To see your scratch repositories look at quickgit.kde.org
and filter by your identity name. To delete old repos, do this:

ssh git at git.kde.org D unlock scratch/<identity name>/reponame <--
notice no .git on the end, if you put .git it will just say "You are
not authorized"
ssh git at git.kde.org D rm scratch/<identity name>/reponame

Hope that helps,
Jeremy

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> == This mail is considered mandatory reading for all KDE Developers.
> Please read this email in whole. ==
>
> Hi all,
>
> As you'll all be aware we are currently in the process of overhauling
> our Git infrastructure, and replacing numerous elements of it.
>
> The first part of this will take place this weekend - with
> projects.kde.org being shutdown. All Git repository browsing from that
> point on should take place through quickgit.kde.org. commits.kde.org
> will also be reconfigured to redirect you exclusively to
> quickgit.kde.org.
>
> As a result the tree structure will only be available from the XML
> file from this point onward. There are no plans to replicate the tree
> structure within Phabricator (although some of the grouping it
> facilitates may be provided through a different mechanism)
>
> The XML file upon which numerous utilities (including kdesrc-build)
> depend will continue to be made available. It will instead be
> generated by a Python script periodically, based on the contents of a
> Git repository.
>
> In terms of Reviewboard, there are no plans to import it's contents
> into Phabricator, as the level of effort required is too high. Once we
> are migrated to Phabricator for reviews, i'm proposing that everyone
> has 4 weeks to finish any final reviews up within Reviewboard before
> it is set to read only by disabling login for everyone. Reviews still
> open at that point would be discarded.
>
> The contents of Kanboard will be migrated into Phabricator, more
> details will come on that over the next few weeks, including details
> of any action people needs to take. As an immediate measure it would
> be appreciated if people could conduct a general cleanup and remove
> tasks and boards they have no intention of using or revisiting in the
> future. Following this migration Kanboard will be shutdown.
>
> In terms of repositories, now would be a good time to look into the
> scratch and clone repositories you have on git.kde.org and perform a
> cleanup of any repositories which are unused, not useful or are
> otherwise no longer needed.
>
> We will be looking into how to import our repositories into
> Phabricator which will include all scratch and clone repositories.
> This means the entire content of these repositories will be indexed,
> and reducing the number of repositories will reduce the amount of
> indexing work which Phabricator needs to complete.
>
> I should also note that as a side affect of the Phabricator
> transition, scratch/clone repositories will to a certain extent cease
> to exist - everything will now be a mainline repository. As a
> consequence force pushes will be disabled for all repositories as part
> of the migration (including scratch repositories). We will be creating
> a mechanism which will allow repositories following certain naming
> conventions to be easily created by developers (although this will
> have to be done through the web interface).
>
> As part of the capabilities of Phabricator, sysadmin will also be
> extending the power to create general purpose mainline repositories
> (and certain other actions within Phabricator) to a number of
> community members. They will be contacted individually over the next
> month or two regarding this.
>
> Comments on the above are welcome (little is in concrete yet), please
> start them in appropriate sub-threads on kde-core-devel (to minimize
> cross-posting, etc).
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin
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