[kgb-maintainers] KGB-1 is changing homes

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Mon Apr 29 14:31:50 UTC 2013


On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:22:14 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> -=| Martín Ferrari, 29.04.2013 14:55:21 +0100 |=-
> > On 29 April 2013 12:28, Arno Töll <arno at debian.org> wrote:
> > > just as a suggestion: Why don't you make a CNAME such as kgb.debian.net
> > > or whatever you feel like and make it resolve by using DNS round robin
> > > to a random server of you three?
> > I am sure we' ve discussed this in the past; I am not sure now why we
> > decided it was not a good idea, but probably it had to do either with
> > port numbers or with the current mechanism to avoid dead servers...
> > Both things seem fixable to me, so I am not sure... Damyan, Gregor?

Maybe also because the individual servers also need to be configured
separately in order to accept messages for a client project.
 
> Right now, the client tries to connect to a server by its hostname. Separately 
> for each commit. This would mean that a git push could result in 
> notifications scattered across all the bots. A cosmetic inconvenience, 
> but still. 

We have this already now :)
(At least for different branches and branches vs. tags).

> I was also thinking about having 'kgb-X.debian.net' (iow, using 
> debian.net as a stable DNS redirector). That would work today. Not 
> sure if we could make these CNAMEs for kgb.debian.net if we choose to 
> go with DNs RR later.

Might work, if we agree on a common port.
(Not sure why I use a different one; I guess this was something with
some filter between Alioth and my server.)
 
> Another idea I had was to make kgb-client understand 'include' 
> configuration option and provide a single list of all the servers for 
> all alioth projects. This would allow us to change hostnames and ports 
> without bothering users.

Oh yes, that would be nice.
 
> What stopped me every time from pushing any of these ideas was that 
> contacting dozens of projects and asking them to make changes to their 
> working configurations would not be fun. Perhaps I am just too 
> hesitant :)

At least we should be confident enough that this would be the only
change for at least a year :)

Cheers,
gregor

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