Re: Proposed updates to the gcc forge repositories

On 11/07/2026 06:45, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM Claudio Bantaloukas via Gcc
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I plan on:
>>> - Renaming gcc/gcc-TEST to gcc/gcc (to make it clear it's a bit
>> less of
>>> a test)
> 
> 
> I think that renaming is extremely confusing. Not being a native
> English speaker I dare not suggest anything better.


Hopefully it helps that now we have:
- https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc as a gcc team container
- https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc for the main repository
- https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-wwwdocs for the gcc website
- https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-archive as an archive of all 
branches currently on gcc.gnu.org/gcc.git
- https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-wwwdocs-archive as a pure mirror 
of the gcc.gnu.org/gcc-wwwdocs.git repository
- https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-a68 as an archive of the effort 
to upstream algol68

As Sam suggests, it's a way to structure things that is widely used.

Thinking about this more, I'm convinced 
https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-wwwdocs-archive is not needed. 
There's only one branch and that is mirrored on 
https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-wwwdocs by the bot.

https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-a68 is another thing to address. I 
had a chat with Jose and apparently the gcc-15-a68 branch, visible on
https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-a68/src/branch/releases/gcc-15-a68
is currently used by the debian team as a source for their gcc-a68-15 
package.
See 
https://salsa.debian.org/toolchain-team/gcc/-/commit/4437a49111b4a56154b4bda14cc8ad92b476830d 
where this is mentioned.

I think what we should do is import the releases/gcc-15-a68 branch in 
sourceware proper and archive the 
https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-a68 repository now that it has 
served its purpose.

To summarize:
- remove gcc/gcc-wwwdocs-archive
- push releases/gcc-15-a68 from the gcc/gcc-a68 repo to the main gcc 
repository in sourceware
- unlink and archive gcc/gcc-a68 on forge

Thoughts?
  > Regards