Submit repo status

[Stanislav Smirnov]

Hi Thomas,

the current plan is to rest when we fork, we’ll skip the upcoming fork because we have already did the reset.

Best regards,
Stanislav Smirnov





> On Dec 6, 2018, at 3:07 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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