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Unfortunately that is not possible because of the hosting costs for Gitorious.org. We're reaching out to archive.org to index everything but it is probably not

by sytse 12y ago

Unfortunately that is not possible because of the hosting costs for Gitorious.org. We're reaching out to archive.org to index everything but it is probably not easy to git clone from there. Feel free to create mirrors of things that are important.

CyberShadow 12y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to migrate the git repositories automatically, and set up redirects? Destroying what might be the only public repository of some projects, and breaking a ton of existing links, is not something that sounds good.
- sytse 12y ago
  We don't want to move people's code without them agreeing with that move to another organization. But I agree the broken links are not nice. I'm not sure how practical it is to redirect projects that moved themselves.
CHY872 12y ago
Might it be possible to at least store copies on gitlab - say, have a project/user/organisation called gitorious with every gitorious project under it? I can't admit that I know just how much stuff is hosted on gitorious, but it might not be too onerous.
- sytse 12y ago
  It is about 4.5TB that is hosted there and we don't want to move people's code to another organization and domain without asking. Edit: I updated the size, it was not 12TB but 4.5
walterbell 12y ago
Are redirects that expensive? How about giving the domain to another entity that is willing to pick up the hosting and/or redirection costs?
- pointfree 12y ago
  >How about giving the domain to another entity that is willing to pick up the hosting and/or redirection costs? GitLab bought Gitorious so they could shut it down, not so they could give it to someone else. That is the purpose of acquisitions within the same field.
  - sytse 12y ago
    The main reason for the acquisition is to give and communicate a clear upgrade path for existing Gitorious users. If someone wants to pay for the hosting costs to keep gitorious.org running longer we'd be happy to do that. Please email me at sytse@gitlab.com or comment here if you're interested.
    - zyxley 12y ago
      >The main reason for the acquisition is to give and communicate a clear upgrade path for existing Gitorious users. That's a pretty disingenuous thing to say when it seems like the only reason an "upgrade path" is needed in the first place is because of the acquisition and shutdown. Edit: Even with Gitorious being "no longer sustainable" in its current form, there are other methods that could have been used (price adjustments, fundraising, etc) rather than an outright and very short-term shutdown.
      - sytse 12y ago
        Responding after the edit. Price adjustments and fundraising make sense when a project is alive and growing, but Gitorious had been seeing less and less contributions over the last few years.
- sytse 12y ago
  Redirects can be a lot of work if there are many and you need to find out where to redirect too. It would be awesome if an other individual or organization is willing to sponsor the hosting costs so we could keep it open longer, if so please email me at sytse@gitlab.com or comment here.

by sytse 12y ago

CyberShadow 12y ago

Wouldn't it be possible to migrate the git repositories automatically, and set up redirects? Destroying what might be the only public repository of some projects, and breaking a ton of existing links, is not something that sounds good.

sytse 12y ago
We don't want to move people's code without them agreeing with that move to another organization. But I agree the broken links are not nice. I'm not sure how practical it is to redirect projects that moved themselves.

CHY872 12y ago

Might it be possible to at least store copies on gitlab - say, have a project/user/organisation called gitorious with every gitorious project under it? I can't admit that I know just how much stuff is hosted on gitorious, but it might not be too onerous.

sytse 12y ago
It is about 4.5TB that is hosted there and we don't want to move people's code to another organization and domain without asking. Edit: I updated the size, it was not 12TB but 4.5

walterbell 12y ago

Are redirects that expensive? How about giving the domain to another entity that is willing to pick up the hosting and/or redirection costs?

pointfree 12y ago
>How about giving the domain to another entity that is willing to pick up the hosting and/or redirection costs? GitLab bought Gitorious so they could shut it down, not so they could give it to someone else. That is the purpose of acquisitions within the same field.
- sytse 12y ago
  The main reason for the acquisition is to give and communicate a clear upgrade path for existing Gitorious users. If someone wants to pay for the hosting costs to keep gitorious.org running longer we'd be happy to do that. Please email me at sytse@gitlab.com or comment here if you're interested.
  - zyxley 12y ago
    >The main reason for the acquisition is to give and communicate a clear upgrade path for existing Gitorious users. That's a pretty disingenuous thing to say when it seems like the only reason an "upgrade path" is needed in the first place is because of the acquisition and shutdown. Edit: Even with Gitorious being "no longer sustainable" in its current form, there are other methods that could have been used (price adjustments, fundraising, etc) rather than an outright and very short-term shutdown.
    - sytse 12y ago
      Responding after the edit. Price adjustments and fundraising make sense when a project is alive and growing, but Gitorious had been seeing less and less contributions over the last few years.
sytse 12y ago
Redirects can be a lot of work if there are many and you need to find out where to redirect too. It would be awesome if an other individual or organization is willing to sponsor the hosting costs so we could keep it open longer, if so please email me at sytse@gitlab.com or comment here.