On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> The steps within my control to potentially fix this issue have been
>> postponed until at least tomorrow due to the Firefox Beta build today.
>> tl;dr is people don't want to take on additional risk changing
>> repositories.
>>
>> I hate to say this, but people using Git for Gecko development will have
>> to
>> wait another day for replication to turn on again.
>>
>> If you haven't tried Mercurial lately, you may want to. Read the
>> "Mercurial
>> for Mozillians" guide at
>>
>> http://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/hgmozilla/index.html
>> for some good pointers.
>
>
> Coming as it does in the middle of a git outage, this advertisement reads
> rather
> like "Dear git users, pound sand".
>

Not my intent. Trying to make the best of a bad situation.

I brushed up against 7+ years of technical debt around the way we manage
our Firefox repositories (the horrible "branching" model) and I lost. I'm
deeply sorry for any inconvenience that's caused and will cause.
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