On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2017, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Or more precisely it was a design flaw from the beginning which was > > > intended to be cured with the workaround of annonscm and now it seems > > > even this will be broken for no good reasons. > > if you think so, you have now idea. > > Please propose a solution for reusing the name without breaking renamed and > > not yet migrated repos. > > Have a "redirect-url" file in the .git directory of the repository? That > can then be used by the anonscm web configuration to send a proper 301 > response to the HTTP client. That way, nobody has to maintain a single > map and individual developers can tell the infrastructure where the new > repository lives. > > For bonus points, make this be something that can still be added to > after alioth is shut down/made read-only, so that the > "anonscm.debian.org" permanent name can also be used for repositories > that are newly created on salsa and never lived in alioth to begin with. > > > Of course you are now one year to late. > > It is never too late for a fix of what is a seriously problematic issue. > > I'm willing to look into the details of doing this if you're happy with > the proposal. I am almost done with the map thing. And to be honest, alioth is slow enough. I really don't want to add anything new.
Alex
