Hey all, On March 21, 2024 5:34:25 p.m. GMT+01:00, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > >>> Circling back on this topic: https://gitlab.com/git is unfortunately >>> taken, so it's out of question. I'd say the most pragmatic thing to do >>> would thus be to retain the already-existing location of the official >>> mirror at GitLab. > >https://gitlab.com/git/ sems to give us 404, though. > That seems tot indicatie this is a user, not a group (gitlab is more advanced then github), but I could be wrong. In both cases the user has set this to private. My guess is, someone set this up as a bot-user or something the like. Maybebgitlab could check activity (internally and confidentially) and see if the user would want to talk. But I admit is a bit hostile. Other we have no way of reaching out. As for my mirror, I started my mail with I'd me more then happy to transfer ownership. The name I post cked as a reference to git-scm.org, and never intended to keep it for myself. As I initially wrote, I was just slow and lazy to sort thongs out ;) I will transfer and relinquish any and all control of the group once I know to whom. Olliver >> I still have not been able to reach Ævar until now. Unless somebody else >> has a way to contact him directly we at GitLab are wondering how to >> continue. > >Git @ SFC has heard from avarab@xxxxxxxxx on Nov 29, 2023 but I do >not recall any more recent communications X-<. > >> It would certainly be great to set up ownership of whatever solution we >> arrive at such that it's more distributed across the community so that >> we don't have a single point of failure in the future. Also, I don't >> want us at GitLab to be the sole owners of the mirror, so I have been >> wondering how the other mirrors are set up and whom we should add to any >> such mirror. > >Distribution, yes. I do not think we mind if the set of volunteer >owners end up to be all GitLab folks, but aiming for diversity is >good. > >> In any case, once things are arranged I will collaborate with our >> support folks to get free CI minutes for the new mirror. > >Wonderful. > >Thanks.
