[eclipse-dev] ATTENTION: Turn off of git protocol

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It is quite likely that you'll start seeing gerrit verification builds and other jenkins jobs failing with "

Command "git fetch --tags --force --progress -- git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git refs/changes/21/180221/4" returned status code 128:
18:15:40 stdout: 
18:15:40 stderr: fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer"

This is due to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=574076. Fix is as simple as changing to https url as done here https://ci.eclipse.org/platform/job/eclipse.platform.ui-Gerrit/jobConfigHistory/showDiffFiles?timestamp1=2021-05-07_05-05-43&timestamp2=2021-06-25_12-29-31 .

Unfortunately this would be quite time consuming to figure out every single place where git:// url is used so keep an eye and fix your Jenkins jobs accordingly.

I want to start another conversation as it seems good timing:

Isn't it time to start using Jenkinsfile for each git repository and use that to trigger gerrit builds?

That would make our scripts easier to grep and find/automate such changes in the future. If there are few others interested in helping out and finding out such work beneficial I would like to discuss with them how we can best handle this change.

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Aleksandar Kurtakov

Red Hat Eclipse Team