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Bug 342496

Summary:	Remove / maintain cvs git mirrors for git hosted projects
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Miles Parker <milesparker>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Miles Parker

2011-04-11 18:29:19 EDT

Hi,

There are a number of sites -- including AMP, which I lead -- that have websites that are still mirrored and listed on the website. This leads to confusion and potentially a significant issue if someone clones the git site and then tries to make a contribution from it. This is compounded because it is the old clone site that comes up first for a google search:

i.e.:

http://dev.eclipse.org/git/index.html

not:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/

I know it would be a pain to try to keep this maintained, but perhaps we could move this to a wiki so that projects could maintain and then have some mechanism for projects to remove their cvs mirroring.

Comment 1 Wayne Beaton

2011-04-12 10:39:22 EDT

For starters, you can change the "sourcerepository" entry in the project metadata so that the project summary provides a correct value (and Dash can gather updated statistics for your project).

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=modeling.amp

While you're at it, you can update your releases :-)

I assume that the CVS mirror still exists because the CVS repository still exists. Webmaster has a process that kills off these repositories about six months after the switch over (to allow stragglers some time to transition).

Reassigning to Community/Git

Comment 2 Miles Parker

2011-04-25 00:51:24 EDT

I'll just point out that Wayne's suggestions, while valid, aren't actually germane to the issue I reported. My project is just an example of a more general issue, which is that there are many projects that have fully active git repos but because their CVS mirrors have been active for longer those repos will come up first in a casual search for "my_project git". Even simply having a statement on that page that says something like:

"Many of these projects have transitioned to fully hosted git repositories. Please visit http://git.eclipse.org/c/ first to ensure that the project isn't one of them."

Really, I'm just trying to be helpful here.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2011-05-18 13:35:53 EDT

In the end, we do intend on removing the Git CVS mirror once the project has officially moved; however, since the mirrors are created automatically we'll actually need to hack some code.

In the meanwhile, I have added your message to the Git mirrors page.  It will take a few hours to actually show up.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2013-03-22 11:17:35 EDT

The mirrors are all gone.