Last weekend FreeDesktop.org began transitioning to their new server/cloud infrastructure after recently finding out their sponsored Equinix Metal services were shutting down. Following the complex migration process this past week, FreeDesktop.org GitLab is up and running on the Hetzner server infrastructure in Germany.
The gitlab.freedesktop.org is serving from the Hetzner servers in Germany, the migration tracker is removed, and there are repositories being updated. I haven’t found any official announcement but given those details and particularly the migration tracker now removed, it appears the migration is complete and on-schedule for its 22 March wrap-up.
Some projects like Mesa haven’t seen any new commits land now in a week but with time will begin catching up from their downtime. From my connection at least, FreeDesktop.org GitLab is serving much quicker than before as would be a nice improvement compared to their prior infrastructure. We’ll see if it remains consistently faster or if it’s perhaps a side effect of less CI/CD jobs firing up and other services with the open-source developers now getting caught up in their tickets and merge requests.
