On Monday, November 4, 2013 9:18:54 PM UTC+1, cjohansen wrote: > > 1) In general, should Gitorious administrators be using bin/git-proxy > > > instead of script/git-daemon? > > > > Only when repository hashing has been used (either currently or if any > > repo in the database has a hashed path). This is no longer the default, > > and using it is not recommended for new setups. So, the git-proxy should > > only be required for historic reasons. > > > > > 2) The proxymachine gem has not had any updates in close to three > > > years. It's basically dead upstream. As a distro package maintainer, > > > this raises a red flag with me. Is it going to be ok for Gitorious to > > > continue to rely on this component? > > > > Good question. As this is really a historic/legacy feature, I don't > > think it's viable to spend lots of time on updating it. Maybe a solution > > could be to remove hashing as an option, and extract the proxy into a > > stand-alone add-on. I'll run this by the team (who, unfortunately are > > having technical problems stopping them from participating on the > > mailing list).
The technical problems are gone. Here we are! ;) The idea of extracting the git-proxy into a separate project/binary/gem is great. We could remove the hashing option from the app without breaking old setups because the (hashed) path to the repos are in the database. There would be one case where it would fall though: people running gitorious on old filesystems (ext2/ext3, that's why the hashing was introduced, right?). But if someone still uses these old filesystems than he/she should convert it to ext4 at least. Having said that, this won't happen for 3.0 as it's almost-almost released now. This is a good thing to do so I added a ticket for it: https://issues.gitorious.org/issues/353 -- -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
