Environment breakage: gitlab.freedesktop.org is undergoing maintenance until 2025-03-22
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50 different ports use a GITLAB_URL based on gitlab.freedesktop.org. This code host is unavailable due to a planned migration from March 16 2025 until March 22 2025.
This affects the following ports, from my `git grep --files-with-matches "GITLAB_URL https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/"` on 782ccc18d8b819cdef6794a6c03eb3d9f7cd04aa :
- dbus
- fdk-aac
- font-util
- freetype
- libdmx
- libfontenc
- libfs
- libice
- libslirp
- libsm
- libx11
- libxau
- libxaw
- libxcomposite
- libxcvt
- libxdamage
- libxdmcp
- libxext
- libxfixes
- libxfont
- libxft
- libxi
- libxinerama
- libxkbfile
- libxmu
- libxpm
- libxpresent
- libxrandr
- libxrender
- libxres
- libxscrnsaver
- libxt
- libxtst
- libxv
- libxxf86vm
- pipewire
- pthread-stubs
- xbitmaps
- xcb-image
- xcb-keysyms
- xcb-proto
- xcb-render-util
- xcb-util-errors
- xcb-util-m4
- xcb-util-wm
- xcb-util
- xcb
- xorg-macros
- xproto
- xtrans
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Onto a question: What is the solution here for FOSS community projects? It's my expectation that the answer for enterprise customers is "set up an asset cache". But doing so for a community project is a bit harder of an ask.
Is there a mirror feature in the pipeline? If not, count this as a feature request for a simple and/or default configured mirror feature to avoid/mitigate environment outages like this in the future.
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