Renaming foss.heptapod.net/octobus/mercurial-devel to foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel
Gregory Szorc
gregory.szorc at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 01:59:03 UTC 2021
I don't see an issue with this as long as foss.heptapod.net isn't making
claims that it is the official home of the project. Just sprinkle some
links to mercurial-scm.org around the GitLab projects and repo descriptions
and you will be fine.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:53 AM Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
> Seems fine to me. Can you add it to the project infrastructure wiki page
> with appropriate contact people listed?
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 05:47 Raphaël Gomès <raphael.gomes at octobus.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've seen some people think that
>> foss.heptapod.net/octobus/mercurial-devel is an Octobus-only repository
>> and serves some sort of company purpose. The URL includes "octobus"
>> purely because we historically didn't want to send the wrong message
>> that this repository was official in any form by using "mercurial"
>> directly.
>>
>> Nowadays the vast majority of the CI for the project runs on Heptapod
>> and people outside of Octobus have been using this repository for a
>> while. We want to encourage external developers to contribute to
>> Mercurial in the way they find easier, and Heptapod is a good way of
>> running patches against the CI, getting feedback before submission.
>>
>> This is of course *not* a proposal to make this repo the canonical one,
>> but simply to ask if people had any objections to renaming (and keeping
>> the redirect, of course) foss.heptapod.net/octobus/mercurial-devel to
>> foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel.
>>
>> Depending on how fast people answer and if we agree or not it might not
>> be my doing, since I'll be off for two weeks starting Saturday.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Raphaël
>>
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