Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-09-04

[Carlos O'Donell via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

CTI: https://cti.coretoolchain.dev/

The CTI project holds Office Hours every Friday, these are the minutes for this Friday's meeting.

The CTI project in collaboration with glibc is working on: https://cti.coretoolchain.dev/projects/glibc.html

Posting across the project mailing lists since some developers had questions and are only subscribed on some lists.

​Agenda:
  - Discussed critical services transition plan.
  - https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/service-transition-plan
  - Discussed options for VCS to email.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/tree/git-mailbomb-cron.py
  - Discussed options for VCS to bugzilla. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/bugspray/bugspray.git
  - Reviewed any situations that From rewriting occurs.
  - Konstantin: No from rewriting occurs.
  - Carlos: OK, so we don't need any commit protection mechanisms to avoid the rewritten from entering the commit author.
   - Reviewed email forwarding. Requires Sourceware.org forwarding becomes subspace.kernel.org. One address is canonical and one is accepted. The problem then if Sourceware turns this off.
   - No need to discuss ARC/SRS, just postfix.
   - In practice this kind of email forwarding goes on permanently.
  - CTI TAC, and glibc have to resolve mailing list names etc.
  - Discussed domain names and project sources. Fewer domain names reduces reliance on certificates and subsequent breakage.
   - Carlos: Preference for "git.coretoolchain.dev/[project name]"?
   - Konstantin: We are able to work with different URLs for different projects, but it is simpler with a single url.
   - Discussed transitioning git and the need for cgit?
   - Konstantin: You get this by default when setting up git (cgit, gitolite).
  - Noted https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/bugs/ as the mechanism for storing bugs that could be a replacement for bugzilla. Talk at LPC "b4 review" and "b4 bugs"
  - Discussed if we need distinct DNS entries to have the redundancy that we would want?
  - No. Distinct DNS is not required to support high availability proxy. However, for git pushes and git pulls we do have distinct URLs that would deliver different services.
   - TODO: Decide on push url.
  - Resolved remaining TODO items in the transition plan.
  - Discussed with LF IT looking at the plan.
  - Noted that with distinct URL names we can have better isolation and facilitate internal or external moves. If each (project, service) pair uses a different DNS name, future moves (within or outside of CTI) can be much more transparent rather than requiring a system under the shared name to handle redirecting things to the system implementing a given (project, service) pair.

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Cheers,
Carlos.