* Alexander Wirt: " Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta" (Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:04:59 +0100):
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 12:51:45PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > > > > OK, cool. > > > [...] > > > > 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 Probably I am missing something or it is technically not possible, but anyway I just want to describe a solution that could be quite simple if possible: What about the idea to just direct all requests for anonscm.d.o to salsa and redirect to alioth, if the target is not found (i.e. the repository was not yet migrated)? Could this be done like described in [0] under "Search for pages in more than one directory"? [0] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html -- Mathias Behrle ✧ Debian Developer PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0xD6D09BE48405BBF6 AC29 7E5C 46B9 D0B6 1C71 7681 D6D0 9BE4 8405 BBF6
