On 22.06.2022 10:47, Andrew Cooper wrote: > 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?
If such a conversion would go cleanly enough, why not. Jan
