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stop syncing and delete labs/private repo from github
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The labs/private git repo is known and NOT private. It contains fake secrets.

We also sync it from Gerrit to Github and then every once in a while we get messages from users who find this and assume it's an accidental leak. They they contact us like they are reporting a security issue.

Similar with automatic scans and warnings such as this:

"GitGuardian has detected the following OpenSSH Private Key exposed within your GitHub account."

This just makes me think we should stop having that repo on github. We should use Gerrit and/or Gitlab and that should be enough for it and it stops the false alerts.

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thcipriani subscribed.

Despite the name, the contents of this repo is publicly visible!

I'm inclined to not worry too much about this.

demon changed the task status from Declined to Resolved.May 24 2023, 5:07 PM
demon subscribed.

Easy fix is to just set the repo to private on Github (just done). Then nobody will see it and send us warnings, and Gerrit replication doesn't need any special-casing to skip it.