Bulk updating dozens or hundreds of repositories

jugmac00 · October 28, 2020, 2:09pm

As for the Zope repositories there were some tedious tasks like...

swapping 3.9-dev for 3.9 in our .travis.yml files
updating the Travis badge url in hundreds of repositories from travis-ci.org to travis-ci.com

...I had another look at https://github.com/asottile/all-repos which I already mentioned in the past couple of Zope/Plone sprints. While the documentation is a bit sparse, I took another look today and I finally managed to bulk update all of our repositories with a single command.

As Plone and especially Collective have many more repositories than Zope, maybe this could help maintaining these many repositories.

I created a quick write-up:

github.com

jugmac00/til/blob/master/zope/how-to-update-all-zopefoundation-repositories-at-once.md

# How to update all zopefoundation repositories at once?

Most or even all `zopefoundation` repositories use Travis for CI.

While Travis offered Python 3.9 as a dev version (`3.9-dev`) for quite some time,
support for `3.9 final` took a while.

That's why we decided to run Travis with Python `3.9-dev`.

Meanwhile Travis finally offers support for Python `3.9 final`,
so [we have to update all repositories](https://github.com/zopefoundation/meta/issues/37),
which would be super tedious by hand.

## all-repos to the rescue

`all-repos` by @asottile is a set of command line tools,
which help to work in bulk with many repositories at once.

In order to get started, you need to

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