[IMPORTANT] gitlab relocation / rename

Wolfgang Denk
2021-02-24T08:30:58Z

Hi all,

I'm sorry that I have to inform you about a disruption of the gitlab
services. This has become necessary for a number of reasons:

- repeated cases of poor performance
- difficulties with CI setup
- security issues

We have to move all public projects off gitlab.denx.de to a new
gitlab instance; the new host name is then source.denx.de .
We are fully aware that this will cause inconveniences, and I can
only assure you that we try hard to keep these as limited as
possible.

# Details

Around noon on Saturday, 2021-02-27, we will freeze all public
repositories on gitlab.denx.de. They will still be readable/
cloneable but any attempt to push new commits after this point will
fail.

We will then copy them over to the now host, source.denx.de .
All custodian accounts will also be transferred, the same login
credentials from gitlab.denx.de will work on source.denx.de .

The URLs for the repositories will stay the same, except of course
for the host name. So, for example, the U-Boot mainline repository
will then be hosted at

https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git

We will install redirects to forward HTTP accesses from the old
repository URLs to the new host. This should make the transition
mostly transparent, but does not cover everything. The following
needs to be taken care of manually:

- Update the SSH URI for pushing to the repositories. Just replace
gitlab.denx.de with source.denx.de . We will transfer all the
SSH-keys to the new host so nothing else should be needed.

- Make sure you're logging in on source.denx.de . Access to
gitlab.denx.de will no longer work!

- CI runners connected to gitlab.denx.de need to be re-registered
with source.denx.de .

The new host should hopefully be operational sometime on Sunday,
2021-02-28. We will send a further announcement once everything is
back up and running.

Thanks for your understanding and patience!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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