On 2025-04-24 12:28, Kaleb Keithley via devel wrote:
forklifting *everything* sounds like a mistake. I've already migrated my storage SIG packages (ceph, nfs-ganesha, and libntirpc) to gitlab; I'll be unhappy if those get borked.
This migration has no bearing on the existing repos that are already on GitLab. We're talking about archiving git.centos.org into a dedicated location (e.g. gitlab.com/CentOS/Archive), so even if the names of some repos overlap that'd be wholly separate.
But the associated centos-release-storage-ceph and centos-release-storage-nfs-ganesha packages are still on git.centos.org [1]. centos-release-storage-common too AFAIK. I undoubtedly have a bunch of distgit repos on git.centos.org [1] left over from when we couldn't use EPEL for dependencies that are no longer needed; it'd be a waste of time and disk space to bring those to distgit.
I kinda disagree on this. I think there's value in preserving old repos, even if they're no longer relevant, because they might be useful to reference down the road to figure out why/how a specific package was built, or a decision was made. It's true there's some cost in terms of disk usage, but I don't expect that to be an issue in practice (the CentOS group on GitLab is under their OSS program, and GitLab is happy to work with us on resourcing as needed).
Cheers Davide