On 22/06/2022 09:41, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 21.06.2022 15:48, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Last week we had a bit of an emergency when a web crawler started >> indexing all our mercurial repositories on xenbits, as caused the load >> on xenbits to go beyond what it can handle. >> >> As a temporary solution we decided to remove access to mercurial >> repositories, but the contents there are AFAIK only for historical >> repositories, so we might consider completely removing access to >> mercurial repositories. This would however require migrating any >> repository we care about to git. >> >> I would like an opinion from committers as well as the broad community >> whether shutting down mercurial repositories and migrating whatever we >> care about is appropriate. Otherwise we will need to implement some >> throttling to mercurial accesses in order to avoid overloading >> xenbits. > While I wouldn't strictly mind its shutting off or the disabling of > hgweb as was suggested in a reply, either would mean to me personally > that it wouldn't be easy enough anymore to warrant trying to hunt > down the origin of certain Linux side aspects in the 2.6.18-xen tree. > Admittedly me doing so has become increasingly rare over time ...
We could convert that into a git repo (probably a branch on an existing Linux.git to save most of the conversion work) and make it available via gitweb if it's still useful? ~Andrew
