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Re: disabling mercurial repositories


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: disabling mercurial repositories

On 21/06/2022 14:48, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Last week we had a bit of an emergency when a web crawler started
> indexing all our mercurial repositories on xenbits, as caused the load
> on xenbits to go beyond what it can handle.
>
> As a temporary solution we decided to remove access to mercurial
> repositories, but the contents there are AFAIK only for historical
> repositories, so we might consider completely removing access to
> mercurial repositories.  This would however require migrating any
> repository we care about to git.
>
> I would like an opinion from committers as well as the broad community
> whether shutting down mercurial repositories and migrating whatever we
> care about is appropriate.  Otherwise we will need to implement some
> throttling to mercurial accesses in order to avoid overloading
> xenbits.

IIRC, we'd mostly moved off hg onto git before moving to the Linux
Foundation, where git became mandatory.  Hg hasn't been the primary dev
tool for ages, and git has only got more ubiquitous in the meantime.

I'd suggest keeping hgweb disabled for now and see if anyone complains.

~Andrew

 


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