Thanks for doing this Tyler!

Greg Rundlett
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:56 AM Tyler Cipriani <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Thank you for reviewing my list of the Wikimedia org's GitHub projects!
>
>  A *lot* of repos were archived or deleted. Additionally, I archived
> all projects that contained nothing but a ".gitreview" without a
> corresponding Gerrit repository.
>
> As a result, we've gone from 296 repositories exclusively on GitHub to
> 154 repositories exclusively on GitHub.
>
> I believe this removed a lot of cruft and now all 2,038 repos on
> Wikimedia's GitHub org are either:
> * A mirror of a Gerrit repo (1,881 repos)
> * A mirror of a Differential repo (3 repos)
> * A project developed on GitHub or a fork of another GitHub project (154
> repos)
>
> I've updated the list of projects[0] that are exclusive to GitHub
> (GitHub fork or a project developed on GItHub) if you'd like to take a
> look.
>
> Thanks again for all your help!
>
> <3
> -- Tyler
>
> [0]. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub#Projects_on_GitHub>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:46 PM Tyler Cipriani <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > If you've never created a repo or fork on the Wikimedia GitHub
> > organization you can skip this email.
> >
> > I know that some repos are developed on our GitHub org for reasons.
> > What is developed on our GitHub org? How many things are actively
> > being developed on GitHub org? I have no idea :)
> >
> > I recently realized that there's not a great way to figure this
> > out[0], but I've been able to narrow the scope a bit. Now I have a
> > list of repos that are (a) in our GitHub org and (b) not in our Gerrit
> > that I could use some help sorting through[1].
> >
> > == Help, please ==
> >
> > * Look through repos on The Listâ„¢[1]
> >
> > If your repos are on the list, for each of your repos either:
> >
> > * Archive or Delete it if it's no longer maintained or empty/useless,
> > respectively (and remove them from the list on mw.org)[2]
> >
> > Or:
> >
> > * put a "{{tick}}" in the "Active" column on the list on mw.org
> >
> > == Why==
> >
> > In a more perfect future we could add the "mirror"[3] tag to repos on
> > GitHub that are mirrored from Gerrit (with a link to their canonical
> > repo locations; for example, gnome-deskop has this[4] and I'm very
> > jealous).
> >
> > Hopefully, this will help folks wanting to contribute -- either a
> > Wikimedia GitHub repo is a mirror (in which case there's a link to
> > Gerrit in the description) or it's actively being developed on GitHub.
> >
> > <3
> > -- Tyler
> >
> > [0]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237470#6407509>
> > [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub#Projects_on_GitHub>
> > [2]: <
> https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/archiving-a-github-repository
> >
> > [3]: <
> https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/finding-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-on-github#open-source-projects-with-mirrors-on-github
> >
> > [4]: <https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-desktop>
>
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