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Re: GitLab to plans to delete dormant projects
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Olivier Dion |
Subject: |
Re: GitLab to plans to delete dormant projects |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:50:38 -0400 |
On Sat, 06 Aug 2022, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> Our build farms need those sources, so they keep them in cache. If you
> need a source, you can always substitute from the build farms if the
> origin disappeared (that's actually the default and you don't even
> need to trust the build farm for that to work).
Does the cache as a time to live? For example, would a source from 2020 in
20 years still be available on the build farms? Or would the build
farms make a request to Software Heritage?
> Another fallback option when substitution is not possible is to get
> the source from Software Heritage. They keep an archive of almost
> everything. To do that, they have listers that help tgem find sources
> fsom different sesvices. They have a lister for GitLab, and even one
> for Guix. Also, as part of guix lint, a request is sert to swh if the
> oriqin is not yet archived.
>
> Hopefully that means our origins are saved by Software Heritage, so we
> can transparently fall back to them.
Okay great then. Maybe it would be a good idea to test this by
simulating the deletion of a Gitlab repo. Better find it out now than
when it's too late.
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Olivier Dion
oldiob.dev