Thanks Tyler for doing this work! Is there an easy way (if not, no big deal) to also see the list of repos that were archived/deleted just to make sure lack of response didn't mean something disappeared that would have been useful to keep active?
Best, Isaac On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 14:05 Greg Rundlett (freephile) <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for doing this Tyler! > > Greg Rundlett > https://eQuality-Tech.com > https://freephile.org > > > 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 List™[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 * Archive or Delete it if it's no longer maintained or empty/useless, 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> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
