Shutting down of the git-daemon (git protocol, https and ssh still remain)

[Quentin Schulz]

Hi Claudius,

On 6/12/24 12:20 PM, Claudius Heine wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> in the past we used cgit, which provided cloning the u-boot repo via 
> http, https, ssh and the git protocol.
> 
> When we migrated to gitlab, which doesn't support the git protocol, we 
> implemented some additional service files to continue to support it for 
> some of our git repositories.
> 
> We just noticed that cloning via the git protocol is currently broken, 
> likely some changes in gitlab happened and we would need to recreate the 
> symlinks on the server to point to the right repositories again.
> 
> Since that is another thing to maintain and keep up, we would like to 
> just shut the git protocol down. AFAIK most projects moved to use https 
> for cloning anyway, since there were not many reports of broken cloning.
> 
> What are your thoughts? Is it worth the effort to keep the git protocol up?
> 

On the side of OpenEmbedded-Core, HTTPS is being used since Langdale 
(4.1) and the first dot release of Kirkstone (4.0.1) so only outdated 
layers would be impacted (provided they aren't already, but since 
there's a download cache system in Yocto, it's possible they're hitting 
their own local cache instead of fetching it from your server(s)).

It's never nice to see things going/breaking compatibility because it 
may break old builds which is always a nice trick up one's sleeve to 
figure out when things started to go wrong in one's image. Also, while I 
checked OE-Core, other third party/community maintained layer could be 
impacted. I assume this is the case of meta-amarula-engicam[1] and 
meta-allwinner-hx[2] for example.

I would suggest sending a mail to the different build systems mailing 
lists, I assume https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel and 
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto for the OE-Core/YP side? Either 
to ask for their opinion or notify them (and specifically third party 
layers) it's going away or both.

[1] 
https://github.com/amarula/meta-amarula-engicam/blob/master/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common_2018.05.inc
[2] 
https://gitlab.com/dimtass/meta-allwinner-hx/blob/master/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common.inc

Cheers,
Quentin