Submit repo status

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Stanislav,

thanks for fixing this. I think resetting the repo makes sense.

In which intervals will you be resetting it?

Thanks, Thomas

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:15 AM Stanislav Smirnov
<stanislav.smirnov at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The submit repo was not working as expected last couple of days.
> The main reason is that the "hg pull" operation was not able to complete succesfully because of the number of heads in the repository.
> The submit repo hasn't been "cleaned" since it opened a year ago.
> There are currently 406 (closed + normal) branches in the repo and most of them are “dead” (not active, but have not been closed).
>
> It was decided to start "resetting" the jdk/submit repository regularly.
> A new repository was created today
>
>         http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/submit/
>
> With no branches except from the default one.
> In order to continue using the submit repo please make a fresh clone.
>
> Also an archive of the old jdk/submit was created
>
>         http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/submit-archive-2018-12-05/
>
> Please continue using the system and report any issues/ask questions related to the submit repo using ops at openjdk.java.net.
>
> Best regards,
> Stanislav Smirnov