[gmx-developers] Switching Infrastructure to Gitlab

Szilárd Páll pall.szilard at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 22:46:55 CEST 2020


On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:57 PM Erik Lindahl <erik.lindahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think the maintenance cost would be very small. The first
> challenge is that we urgently need to deprecate the old VM servers running
> in the theophys network, which means somebody would have to start by
> setting up a new git server running in kuberrnetes with permanent storage
> on ceph. That's obviously feasible, but I see no significant return
> whatsoever on that effort.
>
> I don't remember if we can do HTTP redirects on the Joker DNS servers, but
> if that works we could add one.
>

I can check that later this week(en), but we'd need URL redirect, right? A
git server responds on both http and git protocols.

Cheers,
--
Szilárd


>
> Cheers,
>
> Erik
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:21 PM Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I personally think that having an official repo under the gromacs.org
>> domain looks better. The maintenance cost is very small, but of course not
>> zero. Perhaps a simple redirect is good enough?
>>
>> However, we have not announced either deprecation, removal or change to a
>> redirect (i.e. server change). If it is decided to drop the hosted repo, I
>> suggest to retire it gracefully rather than just removing it or worse,
>> letting it silently go increasingly out of sync (not an issue for master,
>> but all those who clone(d) from git.gromacs.org to get release branches
>> will take some time to realize that their branches are behind).
>>
>> For now I made the minimal necessary changes to restore mirroring of the
>> gromacs and regressiontest repos until a decision is made and announced.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Szilárd
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:29 PM Erik Lindahl <erik.lindahl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any very specific reason why we need to maintain our own git
>>> repository? Wouldn't it be enough to have one mirror on GitHub, and another
>>> on GitLab?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:26 PM Paul bauer <paul.bauer.q at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I don't have access to git.gromacs.org to push things there, so I
>>>> can't set up the mirroring.
>>>>
>>>> /Paul
>>>>
>>>> On 09/04/2020 16:24, Szilárd Páll wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:00 PM Paul bauer <paul.bauer.q at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> and to allow us to switch the Gitlab repository from being a
>>>>> mirror of git.gromacs.org to the source of it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The gitlab mirroring to git.gromacs.org does not seem to be working
>>>> (while the github does). Is that still WIP?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --
>>>> Szilárd
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul Bauer, PhD
>>>> GROMACS Development Manager
>>>> KTH Stockholm, SciLifeLab
>>>> 0046737308594
>>>>
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