Hi all!
Thank you for reviewing my list of the Wikimedia org's GitHub projects!
A *lot* of repos were archived or deleted. Additionally, I archived all projects that contained nothing but a ".gitreview" without a corresponding Gerrit repository.
As a result, we've gone from 296 repositories exclusively on GitHub to 154 repositories exclusively on GitHub.
I believe this removed a lot of cruft and now all 2,038 repos on Wikimedia's GitHub org are either: * A mirror of a Gerrit repo (1,881 repos) * A mirror of a Differential repo (3 repos) * A project developed on GitHub or a fork of another GitHub project (154 repos)
I've updated the list of projects[0] that are exclusive to GitHub (GitHub fork or a project developed on GItHub) if you'd like to take a look.
Thanks again for all your help!
<3 -- Tyler
[0]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub#Projects_on_GitHub
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:46 PM Tyler Cipriani tcipriani@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all!
If you've never created a repo or fork on the Wikimedia GitHub organization you can skip this email.
I know that some repos are developed on our GitHub org for reasons. What is developed on our GitHub org? How many things are actively being developed on GitHub org? I have no idea :)
I recently realized that there's not a great way to figure this out[0], but I've been able to narrow the scope a bit. Now I have a list of repos that are (a) in our GitHub org and (b) not in our Gerrit that I could use some help sorting through[1].
== Help, please ==
- Look through repos on The List™[1]
If your repos are on the list, for each of your repos either:
- Archive or Delete it if it's no longer maintained or empty/useless,
respectively (and remove them from the list on mw.org)[2]
Or:
- put a "{{tick}}" in the "Active" column on the list on mw.org
== Why==
In a more perfect future we could add the "mirror"[3] tag to repos on GitHub that are mirrored from Gerrit (with a link to their canonical repo locations; for example, gnome-deskop has this[4] and I'm very jealous).
Hopefully, this will help folks wanting to contribute -- either a Wikimedia GitHub repo is a mirror (in which case there's a link to Gerrit in the description) or it's actively being developed on GitHub.
<3 -- Tyler