Re: Forbidden requests for kernel.org/releases.json

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 08:45:30AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Set your user-agent to something like:
> 
>     "kdevops-ci/{version} (contact@address.here)"
>

Hi Konstantin,

Is this something you'd like continuous integration tools use in
generation?  I'm using the git CLI called out from go co, but I could
do something like

export GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT="gce-xfstests-20250411/3-g42bcd9aa tytso@thunk.org"

(Where the version would be a lightly edited version of $(git
describe) from the xfstests-bld repository.)

The other alternative that I've tried is to replace git.kernel.org
with kernel.googlesource.com as the git mirror, is supposed to be only
a few minutes behind git.kernel.org and presumably is closer to a GCE
VM from a network perspective.

Do you have any advice or preference about the adviseability of these
approaches?

       	    	       	     	 	       - Ted