On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On 26 April 2018 at 10:21, Alexander Wirt <formo...@formorer.de> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > > >> On 17 April 2018 at 13:00, Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > as you should be aware, alioth.debian.org will be decommissioned with > >> > the EOL of wheezy, which is at the end of May. The replacement for > >> > the main part of alioth, git, is alive and out of beta, you know it > >> > as salsa.debian.org. If you did not move your git repository yet, > >> > hurry up, time is running out. > >> > > >> > The other important service from the alioth set, lists, moved to a > >> > new host and is now live at https://alioth-lists.debian.net [1]. > >> > All public list archives moved over too and will continue to exist > >> > under the old URL. > >> > > >> > ## decommissioning timeline > >> > > >> > 01.05.18: DISABLE registration of new users on alioth. Until an > >> > improved SSO (GSOC Project, see [2]) is ready, new user registrations > >> > needed for SSO services will be handled manually. More > >> > details on this will follow in a seperate announcement. > >> > 10.-13.05.18: darcs, bzr and mercurial repositories will be exported as > >> > tarballs and made available readonly from a new archive host, > >> > details on that will follow. > >> > 17.-20.05.18: During the Mini-DebConf Hamburg any existing cron jobs > >> > will be turned off, websites still on alioth will be disabled. > >> > 31.05.18: All remaining repositories (cvs, svn and git) will be archived > >> > similar to the ones above. > >> > The host moszumanska, the home of alioth, will go offline! > >> > >> Could the steps including taking VCS repos offline be offset by at > >> least two months? There are too many packages not yet migrated to > >> Salsa or to Git in general, and completing that by the end of May is > >> putting too much pressure on the maintainers. > > Nope, we announced that months, if not years ago. > > That doesn’t seem like a reasonable reply. What was announced is one > thing, but the plans have to be adjusted to the reality, which is that > you cannot switch off the VCS hosting by the end of May. It is. The plans were announced, I blocked the dates (I am even on vacation for that) and the system is EOL with end of may. It will go down then.
Alex