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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>]

Hi mages!

First of all, I want to give some updates on repository mirroring:

2 weeks ago I started to look into the tool[0] to auto-mirror our repos
to several main SCM providers. I've been testing it for 2 weeks, and,
well -- so far so good: it takes every repository we have configured on
our primary server and mirrors them to GitHub and Bitbucket. It should
be very easy to extend it to support other types of mirrors.

>From now on there are 2 mirrors available, syncing every 6 hours:

- https://github.com/sourcemage
- https://bitbucket.org/sourcemage/

Tech specs: Python, multi-processing, uses clean YAML config and
'requests' module to perform API calls against GitHub and Bitbucket.

By the way, recently GitHub has updated theirs ToS[1], so while
communities have discussions on whether to remove the code from GitHub
or not, we might want to re-think of what we'd better prefer on the
reliability side.

Regarding Bitbucket: there's a clean view of projects, which you can
find here:

https://bitbucket.org/sourcemage/profile/projects

I also try to keep our OpenHub page in sync to get proper metrics
sync-ed back to the website:

https://www.openhub.net/p/sourcemage

Mirroring part is quite important. We need to resolve our fallback
consistency once and for all. Recently I also updated 'axel' and
'netselect' spells, so maybe we could re-use them to keep our fallback
mirrors up-to-date. Quick question: do we have any scripts responsible
for auto-summon and hash-verification for all spells in the grimoire
hanging somewhere? If yes, I'd like to revive them.

The last, but not least: I'd like to introduce a new component for our
project. For now I called it 'Wand', but if you want to replace it with
something better -- I'd love to hear about your suggestions!

It was initialized with the tool I mentioned above, but it'll get some
expansion beyond this year. So the component will be about infra which
we never properly declared, and it's a good year to fix it: mirroring,
config management, user management, infrastructure testing, access
management automation, server scaling/fault-tolerance, DNS-management,
SSL certificate management, e-mail configuration, backups, monitoring,
etc. So this would be a collection of tools and playbooks required to
properly build and manage the whole infrastructure and keep it reliable
and resilient.

Please let me know what you think.

[0] http://scmweb.sourcemage.org/?p=smgl/wand.git;a=tree;f=remirror
[1] https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm

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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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