Should we just create a Tianocore mirror, rather than relying on someone else?

- Bret

From: Michael D Kinney via groups.io
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:16 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Bret Barkelew; Kinney, Michael D
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [edk2-devel] EDK II CI failing - Do not submit PRs with "push" label set

The issue is resolved.

PRs are being processed correctly now.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 10:23 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; bret.barkelew@microsoft.com
> Subject: EDK II CI failing - Do not submit PRs with "push" label set
>
> Hello,
>
> The repo for the cmocka submodule is not available right now, and this is failing
> CI checks that run unit tests.  Pre-commit checks that do not have any unit tests
> will pass, but the post commit checks that run everything will always fail.
>
>     PROGRESS - ## Checking Git repository: UnitTestFrameworkPkg/Library/CmockaLib/cmocka...
>     ERROR - Failed to fetch UnitTestFrameworkPkg/Library/CmockaLib/cmocka
>     ERROR - FAILED!
>     ERROR - Failed to fetch required repository!
>     ERROR - Unable to checkout repo due to error
>
> This repo access error to the cmocka has occurred one other time in the past.  Bret had
> suggested the idea of using a different repo for cmocka, perhaps a fork in GitHub,
> to avoid this issue.
>
> We are hoping the issue will be resolved very soon. but until then, please do not
> submit any PRs with a “push” label set.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mike
>