Greetings. Fedora infrastructure has been looking at moving from gitweb-caching to cgit for git.fedorahosted.org and pkgs.fedoraproject.org. Some reasons: gitweb-caching upstream is not very alive. gitweb-caching needs manual clearing of it's cache from time to time. gitweb-caching seems to run into security issues, and due to inactive upstream it's difficult to fix. gitweb-caching cannot handle the number of repos in pkgs.fedoraproject.org and doesn't display a useful top page. gitweb-caching seems to leave lingering old git-daemon processes around. cgit cleans up after itself. cgit can display the pkgs.fedoraproject.org repo collection (all be it if it's not cached currently it takes a while the first hit and splits pkgs into 248 pages). cgit seems to have a somewhat active upstream. cgit is faster. cgit displays UTF8, where gitweb-caching often doesn't. We have already pushed cgit live for folks to look at: http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/ and http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ We don't want to carry a ton of redirects/rewrites forever, so we were planning on just adding a few to go to the project if we can tell what that was/is and redirect the rest to the top level to use the search box. We would like to make this change on 2012-07-30, unless there's some show stopper found before then. In the mean time, if everyone could: - Move any scripts or processes you have that use a gitweb-caching url to using a cgit one. - Look over the interface(s) above and let us know (via a infrastructure ticket or #fedora-admin) if you run into a issue with them. Let us know if you have any other issues or concerns. kevin
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