Re: [PULL 00/17] Net patches

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:39:31AM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 9/19/23 10:40, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> >> Thanks!  That worked.  Though I wasn't able to test much anyway as
> >> this thing burned through all my free compute credits less than
> >> half way through the pipeline. :D
> >>
> >> So, AFAIU, it's not something an occasional contributor like me can
> >> use, unless they are spending their own money.
> > 
> > That is not the expected behaviour.
> > 
> > If your repo is a fork of https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu it
> > should benefit from a *massive* x125 reduction on CI costs.
> > 
> > The critical thing is that it *MUST* have been created with the
> > 'Fork' button on qemu-project/qemu.
> 
> Yeah, it might be that the problem is caused by me accidentally
> forking the gitlab.com/qemu/qemu repo instead of qemu-project.
> 
> It is fairly confusing that qemu/qemu is not the main repository
> of QEMU project.  It seems to be some sort of automated account
> and it closely follows updates of the main repository.  It also
> has a better name, and it is *not a fork* of the qemu-project.
> There practically no indication that qemu/qemu is not a main
> repository, except for an icon and a lower star/fork count.
> It's easy to fork the wrong one.
> 
> Do you folks have control over this account?  Could you maybe add
> a description that it is not the official QEMU repository and add
> a link to qemu-project?  Right now qemu-project/qemu states that
> it is a "QEMU main repository", but qemu/qemu doesn't say anything.

The https://gitlab.com/qemu account is a user profile who has
been squatting on that name for a while. I vaguely recall we
tried to claim it with gitlab but because it regularly pushes
code it isn't considered inactive and thus there's nothing we
can do about it :-(


With regards,
Daniel
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