1670266 - Delete references to the build/tools repo in the Firefox repo

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, task)

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Found by :Sylvestre. This paragraph in the docs[1] doesn't reflect the way we kick releases off. Instead, we just rely on shipit[2]. The build/tools repo was even retired in bug 1492541.

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/taskcluster/release-promotion-action.html#triggering-the-release-promotion-action-via-releaserunner3
[2] https://shipit.mozilla-releng.net/ and https://github.com/mozilla-releng/shipit/

Comment 1

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 1670266 - Remove outdated releaserunner3 docs

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/90a9ae0430f3
Remove outdated releaserunner3 docs r=sylvestre DONTBUILD

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Hey :sheehan!

Would you know if there's a way to archive a repo on hg.m.o? https://hg.mozilla.org/build/tools/ doesn't look active anymore, so I wonder if we can flag it as deprecated. This way, people going to that link or clone/pulling that repo will know that it's not used anymore. What do you think?

Comment 4

[Bogdan Tara[:bogdan_tara | bogdant]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/90a9ae0430f3

Comment 5

[Connor Sheehan [:sheehan]]

Right now we don't have a way of "archiving" a repo, aside from just deleting it. I assume that isn't really what you want, since it would break links in bugs, emails etc. It would be trivial to add some code to hgmo such that a clone/pull/push will fail with a message pointing to the new canonical repo, if you think that would be useful. :)

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Johan, we could archive it here:
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/save/

Comment 7

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Good to know! I would prefer if we had a way to redirect old links to the new place. I don't think we can let hg.m.o point to archive.softwareheritage.org. I think the best option is to keep build/tools the way it is now.