Slow fetching of https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/core?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 19/04/2021 11:17, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> More often than not, trying to do a LibreOffice Flatpak build on Flathub 
> fails because the step that fetches the 
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/core?> git repo times out.  See e.g. 
> <https://flathub.org/builds/#/builders/27/builds/44525> and 
> <https://flathub.org/builds/#/builders/27/builds/44278>, with the 
> relevant log output being
> 
>> ]2;flatpak-builder: Downloading gvfs]2;flatpak-builder: 
>> Downloading krb5]2;flatpak-builder: Downloading libreofficeFetching 
>> full git repo https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/core?
>> command timed out: 3600 seconds without output running 
>> [b'flatpak-builder', b'--download-only', b'--no-shallow-clone', 
>> b'--allow-missing-runtimes', b'--state-dir=/srv/buildbot/sources', 
>> b'/srv/buildbot/sources/.builddir', 
>> b'org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.json'], attempting to kill
> 
> I'm not sure whether the best place to do something about this would be 
> the serving libreoffice.org side, or the receiving flathub.org side, or 
> even my choice of <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/core?> git repo URL at 
> <https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/0f288cf2df790d5cd13511471e0216c46c0564b5%5E!/> 
> "solenv/flatpak-manifest.in: Merge 'Switch git repo URL from git: to 
> https:'"?

So this has apparently been discussed at 
<https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/2021/msg00073.html> 
"[libreoffice-website] Minutes from the Tue Apr 20 infra call".