Heya, folks!

We are looking to begin our package repository migration on Sunday, August 13th, 2023. During this time, the Unstable repo will be frozen, and no updates will be pushed or merged. It is estimated that this process will take about four days to complete.

If you are a package maintainer, please wait until the migration is complete to submit new diffs so that we can merge as much as possible beforehand. If you have an open diff that doesn’t get merged, don’t worry! We’ll provide instructions on how to point your local clone of the package to GitHub and open a new Pull Request.

After the initial repository migration is complete, we will keep the old dev tracker online. However, Diffusion (used for source repos) and Differential (patch submission) will be set to only be accessible by Solus team members. The old dev tracker will be shut down once we are satisfied everything has been moved, including issues the team has processed. Until such time, issues can and should still be filed on Phabricator.

Would you like to know more about why we’re doing this? Then go check out our recent blog post if you haven’t already: State of Solus - August 2023. There, you can find the details about why we want to migrate, how the Solus team has grown, and more.

Thank you for bearing with us, and we look forward to getting up and running on the new platform!

does this mean that today and the coming days are bad days to install solus? or does 'repo' in this case means something other than what the end user sees/uses?

    Lucien_Lachance
    No. In this context it means we are moving where the package recipes are currently hosted Phabricator / https://dev.getsol.us to github. The average user will not care about this until we set Phabricator to read only an direct people to a new place to report issues.

    Solus team members and community contributors to Solus packaging are the only people who need to know about this at the moment, regular users and their usage is unaffected.

      We are nearly done the initial import of repositories from the dev tracker to GitHub. Access to the dev tracker is now read-only for people not on the packaging team.

      fin

      (jk, still got disabled repos to import to solus-packages and some miscellaneous packages to import to getsolus but buildserver is unblocked again)

      joebonrichie
      Thank you!
      From the lack of closed issues I take only open ones were transfered, correct?

        a month later
        silke unstickied the discussion .