Repoforge Transition

[davidhrbac]

To-Do

• Mirror infra
  • new master mirror
  • send email to mirror admins
  • recheck mirror status after 96h
  • modify header
  • create new mirror status server
• Clean-Up
  • create vault (out of rsync tree)
  • move obsolete trees to vault
  • vote?!? on obsoletes
  • README.md
• Resign
  • create testing GPG key
  • create signing GPG key
  • test resign
  • rebuild release package (a lot of subtasks here)
• TLD
  • transfer ownership
  • lists site?!?
• notify CentOS wiki - not dead yet

[davidhrbac]

@repoforge/packagers this is the main issue for the transition period

[davidhrbac]

Header file repoforge/repo-files@18e0423

[davidhrbac]

vault is here http://repository.it4i.cz/mirrors/repoforge-vault/

[davidhrbac]

testing key http://repository.it4i.cz/mirrors/repoforge/RPM-GPG-KEY-RepoForge-Test-Key-1

[agrybas]

Hi @davidhrbac - if we have new packages to contribute, should we follow guidelines as outlined at http://repoforge.org/package/? Or better wait until the transfer period is over and potentially new procedures are put in place?

[davidhrbac]

@agrybas you can submit MRs, guidelines are more less OK. No need to wait for transfer period.

[davidhrbac]

There's a new server for Mirmon instance at http://rumcajs.fr.pudu.cz/.

24h check will be provided on both instances:
http://rumcajs.fr.pudu.cz/
http://mirror-status.repoforge.org/

A new branch has been created too at https://github.com/repoforge/mirrorlist/tree/gh-pages_new-site

[davidhrbac]

Everything's OK with the new mirmon server. So mirror-status.repoforge.org CNAME ... CNAME rumcajs.fr.pudu.cz should be available within 600 secs.

[davidhrbac]

RepoForge used to be one of the important repositories for CentOS/RHEL. I know that RepoForge is considered to be clinically dead nowadays. On the other hand RepoForge is still physically alive.

We would like to harness community opinion on RepoForge status and future. In case that you use or used to use the RepoForge I kindly ask you to fill up this form to help us with the decision.

The form is here: https://goo.gl/forms/4SLFnD16K4yJeitt2