Release Engineering

To keep track of this, we briefly chatted about having Mac bibisect repositories on the new box

Any need for action here?

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Any need for action here?

No need for action here. I do it regularly....

Checking back on this one - all going well, anything blocking and/or required? Or all going well?

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Checking back on this one - all going well, anything blocking and/or required? Or all going well?

All going well. Bisect repositories are updated once a week in average

With the upcoming gerrit upgrade/refactoring I'd like to take the opportunity to consolidate that too. Details were agreed upon with @Xisco Fauli Tarazona on IRC:

• Bibisect repos are no longer advertised at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/admin/projects (nor served by the gerrit service). Using gerrit for the bibisect-* projects are overkill because 1/ no change set are ever submitted; 2/ they clutter the project list; 3/ the ACLs are trivial (read access is enabled for everyone, push are forbidden for everyone).

• Having all bibisect repos in a self-contained drive makes it easier to move elsewhere (for instance on the box currently hosting https://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org).

• Furthermore I'm not at all comfortable about opening remote shell access to service users like gerrit.

The bibisect repos are now available for anonymous `git fetch` from https://bibisect.libreoffice.org/$PLATFORM-$VERSION.git . For backward compatibility one can still fetch the active bibisect repositories (6.3 to 6.5) from the old insecure URLs git://gerrit.libreoffice.org/bibisect-$PLATFORM-$VERSION.git , however git:// support will not be added to >6.5 repositories, and will be entirely deprecated once 6.5 bibisect repositories are no longer active. Xisco updated the Wiki page to reflect these changes.

The new workflow involves a dedicated user and hostname: `ssh bibisect@bibisect.libreoffice.org`.

• Creation:

$ git init --bare --quiet ~bibisect/repositories/linux-64-6.5.git
$ git -C ~bibisect/repositories/linux-64-6.5.git remote add -f \
      --mirror=fetch origin ssh://username@hostname/path/to/repo.git
Updating origin
[…]

(No need to create the magic file git-daemon-export-ok anymore. Repositories under ~bibisect/repositories are all public, and all exposed to git-http-backend(1), which runs as an unprivileged dynamic user. Don't put any private world-readable repositories in there!)

• Update (while the remote is not being built)

$ git -C ~bibisect/repositories/linux-64-6.5.git remote update
Fetching origin
[…]

(This is for a fetch-based workflow, like was done up to now. For a push-based workflow one would instead need to push to ssh://bibisect@bibisect.libreoffice.org/~/repositories/linux-64-6.5.git from the original repository.)

Or better, creation + fetch in a single command:

$ git clone --bare --mirror --template ~bibisect/templates \
    ssh://username@hostname/path/to/repo.git \
    ~bibisect/repositories/linux-64-6.5.git
Cloning into bare repository…
[…]

Either way, please use --template= as above (I forgot it in msg#17) in your creation recipe. There is not much in the template right now, but should the need to tune configuration options arise, the use --template= will allow us to do it in a future-proof fashion.

Is there a wiki page where I could write these commands @Xisco Fauli Tarazona? Or should I edit this Redmine ticket instead?

Guilhem: I suggest replacing the contents of this wiki page with what is the current reality: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bibisect/Implementation
(For some reason that page was translated to Danish, but I don't think we should be translating these sorts of docs)

Thanks, I wasn't of that page. Nothing in there was invalidated by the recent refactoring, but I suppose it'd make sense to complete it with the various snippets from this ticket.

Beluga Beluga wrote:

I suggest replacing the contents of this wiki page with what is the current reality: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bibisect/Implementation

Thanks, done. It subsumes part of the workflow in this ticket (repository creation and update).

linux-64-releases has been updated up to 7.0.3.1