Neon/Git

The Neon Git repositories are at http://packaging.neon.kde.org

All KDE contributors can commit to neon* branches or repositories under neon/ directory, it will reject commits to other branches.

They are clones of the repositories used by Debian pkg-kde team http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-kde/. Any commits made to a Debian pkg-kde repository will be pulled into Neon Git immediately.

Add this to ~/.gitconfig

[url "git://anongit.neon.kde.org/"]
    insteadOf = neon:
[url "[email protected]:"]
    pushInsteadOf = neon:

and clone with:

git clone neon:plasma/khotkeys

Anonymous Access

If you don't have a KDE account you can still clone the repo at

git clone git://anongit.neon.kde.org/plasma/khotkeys

Admin

The repository neon:gitolite-admin has gitolite setup, hooks and hook server for those with admin rights (kde sysadmin does).

neon-hooks/pre-receive is a hook to check the branch can be committed to

debian-hooks/debian-to-neon-post-receive is a hook for debian pkg-kde git repos to call the neon server on updates

server/neon-fetch-request-server.py is an XML-RPC server run on the neon server which is called by the debian hook and fetches updates

sync-repos-from-debian.py checks for all the repositories on in debian pkg-kde and adds any missing to neon. This gets run nightly on Jonathan's server embra.

It uses gitolite3 on weegie.edinburghlinux.co.uk, a server used by Neon and Kubuntu and administrated by Jonathan Riddell and KDE sysadmin.

Web interface is cgit.

Settings up new repositories

To set up a new repository it is nice to make it first on the Debian server so the syncing is already set up and Debian/Kubuntu packagers know to use it.

Ask someone with access (Jonathan etc) to ssh git.debian.org; cd /git/pkg-kde/place-to-put-it; ../setup-git-repository <new-repo>
Then wait 15 minutes while the website for git.debian.org syncs the new repo
Then run ./sync-repos-from-debian.py (just tell Jonathan to run it on his embra server)
Make a Neon/unstable branch on the neon git repo and get a Jenkins admin to run pangea-tooling jenkins_jobs_update_nci.rb

The Set Up

neon:gitolite-admin has hooks in .gitolite/hooks/common which are symlinks to neon-hooks/ that get added to new repositories
.gitolite/hooks/update is the normal hook from gitolite that does whatever gitolite needs
neon-hooks/post-receive pings jenkins to start a new build
neon-hooks/pre-receive rejects pushes to non-neon branches and sets up remote to Debian if it exists
neon/website and neon/releases.neon.kde.org have a post-receive hook to update their websites (no longer used for websites at least)
sync-repos-from-debian.py is run nightly on an external server to sync any new repos from Debian pkg-kde (probably no need to be external user, it does need to ssh into the server to remove repositories)
cron on the gitolite server runs bits to restart the servers and run the check scripts:

* * * * * /usr/bin/flock -n /tmp/server.lockfile /var/lib/gitolite3/neon-fetch-request-server.py
* * * * * /usr/bin/flock -n /tmp/gitdaemon.lockfile git daemon --reuseaddr --base-path=/var/lib/gitolite3/repositories /var/lib/gitolite3/repositories
20 3 * * * /var/lib/gitolite3/check-symlink-repos.py
40 3 * * * /var/lib/gitolite3/check-repo-remotes.py