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Re: disabling mercurial repositories


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:47:00 +0000
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  • Thread-topic: disabling mercurial repositories

On 22/06/2022 09:41, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 21.06.2022 15:48, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> 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.
> While I wouldn't strictly mind its shutting off or the disabling of
> hgweb as was suggested in a reply, either would mean to me personally
> that it wouldn't be easy enough anymore to warrant trying to hunt
> down the origin of certain Linux side aspects in the 2.6.18-xen tree.
> Admittedly me doing so has become increasingly rare over time ...

We could convert that into a git repo (probably a branch on an existing
Linux.git to save most of the conversion work) and make it available via
gitweb if it's still useful?

~Andrew

 


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