Re: Git mirror at gitlab

From: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	psteinhardt@gitlab.com,
	"Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: Git mirror at gitlab
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:27:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E5C00398-536B-4CE5-AB25-FE7FCD55CCD8@schinagl.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy1aba6i6.fsf@gitster.g>

Hey all,

On March 21, 2024 5:34:25 p.m. GMT+01:00, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>
>>> Circling back on this topic: https://gitlab.com/git is unfortunately
>>> taken, so it's out of question. I'd say the most pragmatic thing to do
>>> would thus be to retain the already-existing location of the official
>>> mirror at GitLab.
>
>https://gitlab.com/git/ sems to give us 404, though.
>

That seems tot indicatie this is a user, not a group (gitlab is more advanced then github), but I could be wrong. In both cases the user has set this to private.

My guess is, someone set this up as a bot-user or something the like. Maybebgitlab could check activity (internally and confidentially) and see if the user would want to talk. But I admit is a bit hostile. Other we have no way of reaching out.

As for my mirror, I started my mail with I'd me more then happy to transfer ownership. The name I post cked as a reference to git-scm.org, and never intended to keep it for myself. As I initially wrote, I was just slow and lazy to sort thongs out ;)

I will transfer and relinquish any and all control of the group once I know to whom.

Olliver

>> I still have not been able to reach Ævar until now. Unless somebody else
>> has a way to contact him directly we at GitLab are wondering how to
>> continue.
>
>Git @ SFC has heard from avarab@gmail.com on Nov 29, 2023 but I do
>not recall any more recent communications X-<.
>
>> It would certainly be great to set up ownership of whatever solution we
>> arrive at such that it's more distributed across the community so that
>> we don't have a single point of failure in the future. Also, I don't
>> want us at GitLab to be the sole owners of the mirror, so I have been
>> wondering how the other mirrors are set up and whom we should add to any
>> such mirror.
>
>Distribution, yes.  I do not think we mind if the set of volunteer
>owners end up to be all GitLab folks, but aiming for diversity is
>good.
>
>> In any case, once things are arranged I will collaborate with our
>> support folks to get free CI minutes for the new mirror.
>
>Wonderful.
>
>Thanks.