Re: [Orocos-users] Gitorious is down

On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Andrew Wagner wrote:

> As a user, I would absolutely support a migration to github.
> gitorious.org is slow, unstable, and counter-intuitive in comparison;
> it is not clear to me why it even exists.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter Soetens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Sylvain Joyeux <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 11/27/2012 03:29 PM, Peter Soetens wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Sylvain Joyeux <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/27/2012 02:56 PM, Peter Soetens wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Due to a migration on Gitorious.org, some git repositories may not be
>>>>>> accessible. We're setting up a clone on github on this link:
>>>>> 
>>>>> All repos were already back online at the time you send this email.
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, it was close :-)
>>>> 
>>>>>> https://github.com/OrocosDevs
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you want push access to these repositories, you can ask us to
>>>>>> become member of the 'Contributors' group.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> PS: Someone (us?) created the 'Orocos' organisation on github 2 years
>>>>>> ago, which seems orphaned now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That was us and *please* don't do this. We have enough trouble already
>>>>> doing
>>>>> shared development. Having two places were development takes place won't
>>>>> make it better. Or we decide as a group to move to github, but know that
>>>>> for
>>>>> sure Rock is not going to switch ... simply because I have trouble
>>>>> already
>>>>> convincing people here that having both internal and external repos is
>>>>> fine
>>>>> (they would prefer "everything internal" synced to the external repos).
>>>> 
>>>> I understand, I'm not moving to github. I was setting up a backup
>>>> which we needed right now. I have renamed the project to
>>>> 'orocos-toolchain' such that the URL scheme is compatible with
>>>> gitorious:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/orocos-toolchain
>>>> 
>>>> Regarding your concerns: I'll setup a job to synchronise from
>>>> gitorious to github, and won't hand out push rights to anyone for
>>>> github (other than the owners) right now.
>>> 
>>> Fair enough ... I have to admit that I did not think about just removing all
>>> push rights to get a pure readonly flow.
>>> 
>>> I would be interested to get the script (if possible) to do the same for
>>> rock.
>> 
>> curdir="$(pwd)"
>> for rep in rtt ocl typelib orogen utilmm utilrb rtt_typelib rtt_gems
>> autoproj build log4cpp orocos_toolchain; do
>>  cd $rep.git || ( git clone --mirror
>> git://gitorious.org/orocos-toolchain/$rep.git && git remote add github
>> [email protected]:orocos-toolchain/$rep.git && cd $rep.git)
>>  git fetch && git push --mirror github
>>  cd "$curdir"
>> done
>> 
>> I'm running this hourly. Please review since I'm not that familiar
>> with mirroring.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 

@Andrew

I think one of the primary reasons is cost, along with the open source nature of Gitorious.  However, I agree that Gitorious.org is slow and flakey.   Another option is BitBucket.  It's price is much more appealing than GitHub (more often than not it's free), and it's pretty fully featured.

-dustin

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