Austin, Herbert,
All good with me. Thanks for working on this.
Some thoughts:
* Which repos are covered here? Just the ones that used to be on abbott? That
is, the ones maintained by GHC HQ? Better make that clear.
* Does commit permission cover all repos? If they are just the old GHC HQ
ones, fine. If more, it may need to be more granular?
* Can anyone have a repo on git.haskell.org? I assume not.
* I have lots of check-out repos. Each contains lots of .git/config files
because of the multi-repo nature of the GHC build system. It would be
a pain to have to edit each individually. Maybe you can tell us a sync-all
command to update the URL and pushurl configs, once per tree.
* This might be a good moment to clean out our committer list. I suggest the
following
- Start a wiki page on the GHC Trac for committers. Maybe a section of
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
or maybe a separate page
- Send email to all existing committers inviting them to
* create an entry on the GHC Committers page, saying who they are, where
they work, and what they work on in GHC
* reply to you asking for continued commit permission
Lacking such a reply, you can omit them. In this way we'll get an up to
date
list.
- Perhaps we should have a convention that no commits in a year means you
lose
commit permission. You can be reinstated by asking, but it means we don't
have
a list filled with ex-committers.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Austin
| Seipp
| Sent: 30 July 2013 10:42
| To: ghc-devs@haskell.org; Herbert Valerio Riedel
| Subject: Proposal: Gitolite for repository management
|
| Hello all,
|
| Recently with the new haskell.org server move, a few of us have taken
| roles of administrating the new server infrastructure including
| ghc.haskell.org, containing the GHC repositories. (Previously, the GHC
| repos were on abbot.haskell.org, which was maintained by Galois. The
| new servers are community managed.) I'm one of these people, so first
| off if you have any problems, let me know!
|
| I should also say Herbert Valerio Riedel has also stepped up to help
| administrate the GHC Trac instance. He's quite experienced in these
| sorts of matters, and his help is greatly appreciated. If there's
| anything wrong in this area, he can also be of help. :)
|
| Anyway, the real topic: Recently, we have been discussing the way
| GHC's repositories are managed, and it's slightly suboptimal for
| several reasons. We would instead like to deploy Gitolite, a smart
| git-access wrapper. This will not only solve some annoying issues
| (like Simon's recent permissions error when pushing to testsuite,) but
| also make ghc.haskell.org more secure and easier to maintain.
|
| We have a proposal with preliminary details up here:
|
| http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GitolitePlan
|
| Please refer to it for the exact details. But the visible overview for
| all the active developers will be:
|
| * Shell accounts will go away. You'll only have access to the repositories.
|
| * Your SSH push URL will change very slightly.
|
| * sync-all will probably need to change a bit for the new remotes.
|
| This will all need to happen within a small window of downtime. As
| outlined above, we believe we can pull off a switch with minimal
| interruption. So on that end, we need to know a few things too. What
| we'd like to know is:
|
| * Does any developer who has shell access to ghc.haskell.org actually
| *need it*? Outside of administrative tasks, I'm not sure who should
| and should not have access. At the least, your privileges will be
| slightly reduced after we're done (since the darcs group won't be
| needed.)
|
| * Who is an active committer? I'm not really sure what to do here,
| but we can easily transplant all the current users in the 'darcs'
| group. Alternatively we can establish it for most of the core
| committers, and add people who commit less frequently on a rolling
| basis (they can just contact me.)
|
| * When should this be done? The downtime window will be small
| hopefully, and I don't think this would really inconvenience anyone
| too much if we did it soon, but I feel we should ask.
|
| --
| Regards,
| Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
|
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