From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catonano Subject: Re: Github mirror and archive Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 14:27:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20170406095302.GA6957@mail.thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c1cbb763a7188054c7ea0b1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw6VD-0006WP-Pg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:27:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw6VC-0005gK-P2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:27:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wr0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231]:34779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw6VC-0005eH-HY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:27:02 -0400 Received: by mail-wr0-x231.google.com with SMTP id t20so59461158wra.1 for ; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 05:27:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170406095302.GA6957@mail.thebird.nl> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel --94eb2c1cbb763a7188054c7ea0b1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 2017-04-06 11:53 GMT+02:00 Pjotr Prins : In all, I have come to depend on github, critically because > organizations I am involved in would be severely impacted when we > moved elsewhere. Even for GNU Guix - which pointedly does not use > github - would be severely hampered if something happened to > github. So many projects are hosted on github that distribution and > deployment of free software would be severely broken if github went > down. In other words we have built a monster. > [...] > Also > software releases distributed by github should be mirrored elsewhere. > GNU Guix, for example, should mirror and fully archive the source > tarballs that github provides. > A side note: If and when Guix will have GNUnet, it could use it to distribute non only binaries but also tarballs --94eb2c1cbb763a7188054c7ea0b1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


2017-04-06 11:53 GMT+02:00 Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird= .nl>:


In all, I have come to depend on github, critically because
organizations I am involved in would be severely impacted when we
moved elsewhere. Even for GNU Guix - which pointedly does not use
github - would be severely hampered if something happened to
github. So many projects are hosted on github that distribution and
deployment of free software would be severely broken if github went
down. In other words we have built a monster.

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Also
software releases distributed by github should be mirrored elsewhere.
GNU Guix, for example, should mirror and fully archive the source
tarballs that github provides.

A side n= ote: If and when Guix will have GNUnet, it could use it to distribute non o= nly binaries but also tarballs
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