Sync github projects on fedorahosted

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:19:22AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:33:39 +0100
> Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For about a year now we have a bunch of project on github. With it,
> > we benefit from its UI and easy access for new contributors.
> > But github is proprietary so not so in line with our spirit.
> > Although git is decentralized I think we should keep a clone of our
> > projects on fedorahosted, just for the shake of saying, our infra
> > does not depend on github and if github goes down tomorrow, one can
> > still access the sources.
> > 
> > With that I mind, I created the ticket #4212 [1], the idea is to run
> > a cron job that would clone/pull all the projects under the
> > fedora-infra group of github.
> 
> ...snip...
> 
> > Do you have another idea/suggestion?
> 
> I think doing this is a great idea. ;) 
> 
> What about using grokmirror?
> 
> https://github.com/mricon/grokmirror
> 
> (packaged as python-grokmirror)

This looks really quite nice, I should have checked for it before opening the
ticket.
@souradeep would you like to have a look at this and see if we can set it up?
It might save us some work but taking care of the mirroring part.

Pierre
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