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

[Kevin Funk]

On Friday, March 18, 2016 7:22:03 AM CET Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> 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

Thanks a lot for this!

/me cleans up.

Cheers,
Kevin

> 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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> > kde-community at kde.org
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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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