On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:19:22AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:33:39 +0100
Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou(a)pingoured.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For about a year now we have a bunch of project on github. With it,
> we benefit from its UI and easy access for new contributors.
> But github is proprietary so not so in line with our spirit.
> Although git is decentralized I think we should keep a clone of our
> projects on fedorahosted, just for the shake of saying, our infra
> does not depend on github and if github goes down tomorrow, one can
> still access the sources.
>
> With that I mind, I created the ticket #4212 [1], the idea is to run
> a cron job that would clone/pull all the projects under the
> fedora-infra group of github.
...snip...
> Do you have another idea/suggestion?
I think doing this is a great idea. ;)
What about using grokmirror?
https://github.com/mricon/grokmirror
(packaged as python-grokmirror)
This looks really quite nice, I should have checked for it before opening the
ticket.
@souradeep would you like to have a look at this and see if we can set it up?
It might save us some work but taking care of the mirroring part.
Pierre