Re: [Xen-devel] Sunseting mercurial

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 25.03.18 at 04:46, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Its been officially 5+ years since Xen has moved to git so I propose we
> start thinking about when to retire the mercurial mirrors. At this point
> the last stable version to be tracked in mercurial is 4.4 which is long
> out of any form of support. I know some vendors still have support for
> versions of Xen down to 4.1 but let's be realistic, there's not a flurry
> of development happening in those old versions. The mercurial mirror is
> often out of date (I know someone that's tried to use it) and in fact as
> of this email its several weeks out of date.
> 
> So maybe its time we start thinking about sunsetting the mercurial
> mirrors and use those resources for more practical uses.

This was brought up before, and I continue to agree _as long_ as
our web representation of the tree gains something similar to
hg's "annotate" functionality. Without that I find it quite hard to
locate commits most recently changing a line or an area of code.
Of course aiui this can be done from the command line, but only if
one happens to have a repo on the particular machine (which for
example I don't have or intend to have at home).

Speaking of mercurial, Anthony, wasn't it you who looks after the
git -> hg mirroring? The unstable.hg branch didn't get updated
after the last push from staging to master. Could you please see
if this can be rectified (assuming that my memory didn't fail me in
the first place, and it was someone else)?

Thanks, Jan


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