split hosting in its standalone module

Yep, and that issue seems blocked on work in the 'project' project, and isn't linked to an issue under 'project', so it may be a while. Can we automate creating release nodes with Jenkins, maybe?

That would require an account on Drupal.org with admin access to the projects.. Not sure Drupal.org people would like that. But it's an idea!

The two should probably be kept in sync, no? Even though hostmaster doesn't change much, it'll have to track changes in hosting.

Hm... not necessarily. We *could* make the hostmaster.make file follow the latest hosting module, by not specifying a version, for example. Otherwise, yes, that means we need to release both every time.

I was hoping we could desynchronise away the hostmaster profile, since very little work happens there, the same way we don't need a new eldir release at every hosting release...

The problem here is that this will simply break "dev builds" - if the makefile specifies "use the latest version", then it will download the latest *stable* version and we won't be able to install aegir out of the box from git, unless we use a custom makefile.

In other words, hostmaster from git will not install hosting from git, but from stable. Ouch.

Ah that's a good idea! Yes, it could just work! Then we'd need to fix the build scripts and documentation, otherwise this seems like a good idea.

i did this:

 1004  git clone hostmaster hosting
 1005  cd hosting
 1006  git tag -l
 1007  git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
 1008  git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter modules/hosting/ HEAD
 1009  git update-ref -d refs/original/refs/heads/6.x-2.x
 1010  git remote rm origin
 1011  git reflog expire --expire=now --all
 1012  git gc --aggressive
 1013  git prune
 1014  ls
 1015  git remote add origin anarcat@git.drupal.org:project/hosting.git
 1016  git fetch origin

then i tried to do similar rebase than in the eldir mergeback, and failed:

anarcat@angela:hosting$ git rebase -p --onto origin/master --root
error: could not apply e8ae7b6... merge hosting into hostmaster

When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue".
If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip".
To check out the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort".
Could not pick e8ae7b65ca8d9ca7ea6056c1e602dae810a08adf
anarcat@angela:hosting$ git co --theirs .
anarcat@angela:hosting$ git add .
anarcat@angela:hosting$ git rebase --continue
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
[detached HEAD c2fb7d0] merge hosting into hostmaster
 27 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
Auto-merging client/hosting_client.access.inc
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in client/hosting_client.access.inc
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
Error redoing merge e44a18648a1aa15eb1c03fd7da47b090d51a3ebf

I gave up there again, not sure why this is failing, again. So we just have a disconnected branch and that's it...

anarcat@angela:hosting$ git push -u origin 6.x-2.x
Counting objects: 4782, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (1230/1230), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4782/4782), 716.91 KiB | 76 KiB/s, done.
Total 4782 (delta 3605), reused 4701 (delta 3550)
To anarcat@git.drupal.org:project/hosting.git
 * [new branch]      6.x-2.x -> 6.x-2.x
Branch 6.x-2.x set up to track remote branch 6.x-2.x from origin.

Now we need to change the makefile and remove the code from hostmaster.

i have also moved over the 3.x branch. the remaining dev branches are ignored and left over to rot over to the hostmaster side. those includes the views integration stuff (#588728: Meta: Views integration redux), which will be rerolled in the hosting repo, and dev-1205458-move_sites_out_of_platforms (#1205458: Move modules/themes/libraries/files/private directories out of /sites/example.com), which will be rerolled if necessary. Other feature branches are either merged in or older than 12 months so considered dead.

so this is only partly done. the problem we're having now is that a hostmaster install doesn't follow tags, unless we edit the hostmaster.make file on release, which is annoying (but may be the only option).

i reverted some work I tried to do to workaround all this, to quote:

commit b81a646063e123b106858d80c6976716edca91dd
Author: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@koumbit.org>
Date:   Thu May 16 19:03:39 2013 -0400

    revert last changes to release process

    we are keeping the old method of installing from git, which means we
    will install post-alpha2 code when there are commits to the frontend,
    but meh - we currently can't install alpha2 at all from git, so that's
    better.

    we at least need to download the hostmaster profile in aegir.make, but
    then that means it will recurse into hostmaster.make, so it means we
    need to fiddle with *that* code if we want have sticky branches there.

    the other alternative is to build from the distribution, but that's
    not supported by Drush make, only by pm-download.

we may postpone the proper fix to a latter alpha release, since this "works" now, it just installs any latest 2.x code...

so this works: we have split hosting, now the only thing that remains is the release process, for which i'll create another issue (#2002114: fix release process and scripts).