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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Repository mirrors & CI are looking for a new "maintainer"
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:32:18
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr81FdojQ6hUGtbZfwY2wXzaNcVBv1Np14A3KXafihnr7w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Repository mirrors & CI are looking for a new "maintainer" by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 3:41 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi, everyone.
4 >
5 > TL;DR: I need someone to take over the job of minimal "maintenance" work
6 > around repo mirrors & CI. I can still do the needed code changes, I
7 > just need replacement for stuff like filing bugs and taking care of
8 > immediate issues.
9 >
10 >
11 > I've started the repo-mirror-ci project back in 2015 to provide QA
12 > checks for the Gentoo repositories (as listed in repositories.xml).
13 > Originally, it was supposed to run repoman (later: pkgcheck) on all
14 > repos. You can guess how that went.
15 >
16 > Fast-forward, the project roughly broke into three somewhat
17 > complementary parts:
18 >
19 > 1) Repository mirrors that sync, do basic "is it working" checks
20 > and generate md5-cache (which also catches some ebuild problems) for all
21 > repos.
22 >
23 > 2) Gentoo CI that runs pkgcheck against ::gentoo.
24
25 Happy to take this.
26
27 >
28 > 3) Pull request CI that runs pkgcheck against pull requests on GitHub.
29
30 Happy to take this too.
31
32 Both are part of work we would need to do to migrate CI to gitlab
33 (should we eventually move stuff to gitlab.)
34
35 >
36 > Nowadays, everything is running on Gentoo Infra, lots of things are
37 > automated but it still requires some manual maintenance. Most notably,
38 > this includes:
39 >
40 > a. periodically running a script to file or update bugs about problems
41 > with overlays,
42 >
43 > b. pinging overlay maintainers and removing obsolete overlays if
44 > necessary (this part seems to have been partially taken over),
45 >
46 > c. occasionally dealing with weird failures blocking repos pipeline --
47 > usually through adding repos to bla... I mean, blocklist until I manage
48 > to fix the scripts.
49 >
50 >
51 > While admittedly this isn't that much work, I no longer wish to do it.
52 > I still feel responsible for setting this up, so I'll do my best to keep
53 > the code working but I need somebody else to do the maintenance work.
54 >
55 > If you're interested, please ping me on IRC and I'll give you a quick
56 > run-around and add you where necessary. I don't think you need strictly
57 > to be a dev but you'll need editbugs.
58 >
59 > --
60 > Best regards,
61 > Michał Górny
62 >
63 >

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