Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 07/29/2010 07:14 AM, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> On 07/23/2010 11:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> The conversion will take a couple days, which means our normal short
>>>> outage for branching will be a bit extended.  I wish there was another
>>>> way, but converting over 9K cvs repos into git repos does take some
>>>> time.  I really feel that this move is worth the extended outage.
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>>> The conversion process has begun.  We have just over 10K repos to
>>> convert, and nearly 200 are done already.  I'm employing a second host
>>> to help conversion to cut down on the over all outage time.
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>> Is there a running status report somewhere?
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>> Peter
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> Not really, but I can give a quick update.
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> Over 10K repos have been converted, but I do have to run a script over
> those repos and make sure the conversion actually "succeeded".  We've
> also gotten dist-f14, dist-f13, dist-f12, and el6 in a state that we can
> build with, however we do have to do some bootstrapping of el4/5.  I
> have yet to look at OLPC-2/3.

Completely ignore OLPC* they are historical and are no longer used.

> We have run into some trouble with the kernel repo so I'm attempting
> some different conversion options, with a final fallback position of
> creating empty git repos and importing the last built srpms for each branch.
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> We've also identified some issues with gitweb that we are working on,
> however this is not critical functionality and can be set aside until
> after the outage.
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> Today's work will consist of getting el4/5 buildable, getting updates
> pushed with a good production build of fedpkg, mass branching git and
> turning on the buildsystem again.

Cool. With the last moment of python there's some breakages that would
be nice to get fixed.

Peter