There is a planned freedesktop GitLab outage for a week starting in just a couple days:
Is this likely to affect Hydra / package builds in any way?
I’m not too deep into hydra and friends, but hypothetically: if a package update PR is sent before the outage (so ofborg builds it) but hydra attempts to fetch the source during the outage, I’d imagine it’d fail.
Seems like we have ~300 packages that might be relevant/affected, not accounting for their reverse dependencies:
$ rg freedesktop.org -l | wc -l
302
Though if any of those are channel blockers and get updated during the outage, then the channel won’t advance for now (which prevents users from getting a channel that they can’t build from).
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I also expect nothing serious. Packages hosted there probably won’t be releasing updates during that period, too. Switching to a mirror could be done (temporarily) in case of emergency of some package, assuming the package is mirrored somewhere (say, github).
BTW, our build infra also used to rely primarily on Equinix Metal (for *-linux) and had to leave during the last several months.
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