On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 12:51:45PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > 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. > > OK, cool. > > > And to be honest, alioth is slow enough. I really don't want to add > > anything new. > > I'm not suggesting you add "anything new". The anonscm.d.o name is > useful enough to keep, and having it be redirected when needed would be > nice. > > I'm thinking this could be provided independently from running alioth. > > Anyway, looking forward to your map thing :-) First draft is on https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter
Alex
