OE git servers

[Khem Raj]

On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <jefro at jefro.net> wrote:

> Hi all - it is one of my action items to investigate the possibility
> of moving or changing the OE git servers to avoid the slow service
> people experience sometimes. I believe I have a clue now about why
> this is happening and how to avoid it.
> 
> Currently the OE git servers are available to anyone, and a lot of
> normal users draw their nightly sync from master. This is different
> from the way kernel.org, for example, handles things - they push
> normal users off to mirrors and only let those with commit rights bang
> on master.

not true.
I can still clone from git.ko.org even though I don't have push access to kernel.org

and https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/
published https/git/https ways to clone it.

> 
> Tom has told me we could solve that part of the issue by simply
> disallowing http and git access, only allowing ssh, and by changing
> the documentation to point users toward the mirrors (github). That
> seems to me to be much easier to manage than changing servers.
> 
> I think it would be good for the TSC to discuss the issue of forcing
> users to go to the mirrors. Meanwhile, I'll ask scottrif to make sure
> the docs point to github instead of oe.org.
> 
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