On 2025-04-09 09:26, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
As you raised the question about repositories : has the board already discussed this with Red Hat legal about what to do for the el7/el8 sources that were pushed to git.centos.org ? Can we drop these ? (I guess answer is no) Can they be migrated to redhat namespace on gitlab (like https://gitlab.com/redhat/rhel/rpms) ? Or can they be migrated to centos namespace instead ? (https://gitlab.com/centos/)
I don't have strong feelings about the old source delivery branches, as long as they're preserved somehow. Worth noting some of these go all the way back to c4 (e.g. https://git.centos.org/rpms/coreutils/branches), so it's not just c7/c8, and there's also old SIG content there. Moving them to gitlab, either under redhat or centos, would be fine IMO, as long as they're clearly marked as archives (easiest is probably to just bulk migrate all the repos as they are and then archive them).
For SIG branches going forward, we should encourage SIGs to use a hierarchy within their namespace (e.g. we're using https://gitlab.com/CentOS/Hyperscale/rpms/ for Hyperscale).
Cheers Davide