As a test case, we've been asked to archive this small (for now) GitLab instance: https://gitlab.etsit.urjc.es/
We can easily find tons of other small public instances for further testing.

This is now fixed (by @vlorentz) and deployed.

is there anything left, that is blocking the deployment of this? (otherwise it seems like an easy low-hanging fruit)

Great work, thanks! I'm stopping by just to comment on this:

Speaking of which, it would be nice to have comments on all columns on all tables of all databases…

how is that "understandable"? :-)

P353 is a quick and dirty wrapper to play with licensee locally after git clone

+1 for this need, and +1 also to the initial draft by @ardumont.

In T1499#27578, @douardda wrote:

Note that I've modified the original file, so I'm not sure whether we should keep it (swh/core/api/negotiate.py) under its original MIT license (in which case the debian package's copyright file should be modified) or if we put it under the swh.core's LGPL one.

The object storage doesn't have content names, so it cannot address this feature as stated.

In T1483#27359, @vlorentz wrote:

You are correct, except I will store mapping names, not file names (eg. because gemspec files are usually named project_name.gemspec, which is harder to query).

(2) seems the best option to me.

Can you elaborate on how this would be implemented?

merged in 4a6bb9e5f74957a127d004e9c2c0f36027085497

i agree it doesn't need to be a "button", any UI element would do

I like your wording! (and we can leave the parenthetical aside, by just deploying the feature bit by bit on the origins that support re-taking a snapshot, like repositories right now)

after D881, tox -e sphinx-dev now fails with a different error:

Exception occurred:
  File "/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-docs/.tox/sphinx-dev/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinxcontrib/images.py", line 214, in is_remote
    .format(uri))
ValueError: Image URI `images/tasks-lister.svg` have to be local relative or absolute path to image, or remote address.
The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-dv4lb4gw.log, if you want to report the issue to the developers.
Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error message can be provided next time.
A bug report can be filed in the tracker at <https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues>. Thanks!
make: *** [Makefile:61: sphinx/html] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-docs/docs'
WARNING [pifpaf.drivers] `psutil.Popen(pid=5714, status='terminated')` is already gone, sending SIGKILL to its process group
WARNING [pifpaf.drivers] `psutil.Popen(pid=5697, status='terminated')` is already gone, sending SIGKILL to its process group
WARNING [pifpaf.drivers] `psutil.Popen(pid=5692, status='terminated')` is already gone, sending SIGKILL to its process group
ERROR: InvocationError: '/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-docs/.tox/sphinx-dev/bin/python -m pifpaf run postgresql -- make -C docs html'
___________________________________________ summary ___________________________________________
ERROR:   sphinx-dev: commands failed

the file in question (tasks-lister.svg) is properly generated by running make by hand, but it is not when the build is done by tox

this is needed and good, thanks!
but note that building docs still fails (due to a different error now), so I don't think you should close T1450 with this

@ftigeot did you try to *call* the Dell sales rep, as we discussed a while ago?

what kind of inventory we want to do with this? hardware? software? both?