Re: Sync github projects on fedorahosted

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 05:28:03PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:35:43PM +0100, Maciej Lasyk wrote:
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > When it's about mirroring git(hub) repos than I think that it's good to
> > consider gitorious as the solution. It's FOSS and just do the job. Even
> > bi-directionally. I think that might be interesting for you guys :)
> > 
> > https://gitorious.org
> > 
> > And a working solution from Gluster guys:
> > 
> > http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/mirroring-into-gitorious/
> 
> If I understand this correctly, they are just using the --mirror option of git
> clone and run a cron job to keep things in sync.
> So that's close to what we want but I don't think gitorious adds us anything
> that we can't already do
> 
> Interesting reading though, gives ideas :)
> 
> Pierre

Hmm right - I gave you wrong example. I read about GROK and believe that
it will do the job for you :)

But I just wanted to show you that gitolite can be
used in many ways. Just about mirroring:
http://gitolite.com/gitolite/mirroring.html

Just check the first paragraph - it will give you the whole look :)

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Maciej Lasyk

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