Owner of MacPorts account on GitHub

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> At the moment it's the lack of Trac's functionality to browse the tree
>> and the logs that has triggered the "demand" for this.
>
> That will get fixed. In asking about github, we're just trying to explore all options.

I hope so at least. But until this gets fixed (and it might take a
while before it does), it would be extremely helpful to have an
up-to-date git mirror to be able to browse through the changes in a
slightly more "user-friendly" way than with the command-line only.

I could use
    https://github.com/neverpanic/macports-ports
now that you mentioned it, but that one is also not being synced
automatically (yet).

Clemens, are you willing to set up some (temporary) repository with
regular updates, even if it's not perfect yet, just so that we can
follow the changes? (I can offer to run a script for incremental
updates on my server if there is a need for that.)


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
> Clemens Lang writes:
>
>> [1] https://github.com/neverpanic?tab=repositories
>> [2] https://github.com/neverpanic/svn2git
>> [3] https://github.com/neverpanic/macports-svn2git-rules
>
> Sounds like this is a lost cause for me, but for what it's worth, I work
> at Bitbucket now and we could offer hosting (plus direct admin support).

What exactly do you consider "lost" and why?

At the moment we are (hopefully) discussing just a mirror of the code
being put on some server, still hoping that everything will get back
to normal. This mirroring can be done on any of the existing services
(github, bitbucket, gitlab, ...) or even on all of them at the same
time.

Mojca

(Off-topic, but: If we were discussing other services, the biggest
problem would probably be all the buildbots anyway, and I doubt that
BitBucket would be interested in helping out with that. Purchasing the
necessary hardware alone would be expensive enough. We currently have
10 virtual machines and we could easily request 5 or more right now
[two for 10.11, three for libc++ on 10.6-10.8, potentially another
bunch of them for universal binaries] and two new ones each year after
the release of a new OS. All of that has to run on Macs with
sufficient memory, disk space and potentially more than one core per
buildbot.)