Radeonhd repo not migrated to gitlab.

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Fri Mar 8 01:15:46 UTC 2019


On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:12:17AM +0900, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 09:52, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:37:21AM +0900, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > FWIW, It was unique amongst all Xorg repos in that it didn't have a
> > > .git suffix on the directory (i.e. its path was
> > > /srv/git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/ rather
> > > than .../xf86-video-radeonhd.git/), which might explain it if you were
> > > pattern-matching to list all the repos. Certainly it broke the
> > > migration script so I had to rename it by hand first. Anyway, it's
> > > migrated now.
> >
> > And at no point in this process, or the past half a year or so, did you
> > look at that actual list above and notice anything, right?
> >
> > *sigh*
> 
> I'll admit that somewhere between writing migration scripts, migrating
> the other 1,268 repos from git.fd.o, maintaining our new and old
> infrastructure, trying to find financial sponsorship for our
> infrastructure, fire-fighting sudden 50% SMTP delivery failure rates,
> bringing up a CI system and maintaining it as it exploded in use,
> supporting people trying to use our new systems by walking them
> through the API and bug-hunting for them, documenting and scripting
> our new infrastructure so it can be replicated, dealing with regular
> influxes of Bugzilla spam, trying to urgently move everyone off
> Bugzilla as it's now abandoned upstream, helping Martin bring up the
> new members.x.org so it's no longer an insanely insecure pile of PHP,
> rewriting the fd.o homepage and lists of projects to not be massively
> misleading, working on a lot on Wayland and Weston, working a bit on
> Mesa/KMS/etc, then also doing my actual day job and taking care of my
> personal life, I failed to make the time to specifically ensure that a
> driver which has had one commit since 2010 was updated.

It's just amazing how it is always the same repo and the same person 
that receives you and ajax special attention or more or less active lack 
thereof, depending on the situation.

Luc Verhaegen.


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