Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa
On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 22:05:17 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
wrote:
>Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>> On Sun 08 Sep 2019 at 05:35PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
>>> You are encouraged to mirror your repository to Salsa so that people can
>>> find more of the Debian packaging in one place.
>
>> Hmm, if the Vcs-* are set correctly, what's the value of mirroring to
>> salsa? (I don't object in the least; just wondering about the value.)
>
>Higher chance that the repository won't go away. For instance, the
>primary home of all of my packaging repositories is on my own Git server
>and will continue to be because I like to have my own personal control
>over such things, but it's in the project's best interest for me to mirror
>them to Salsa so that if I suddenly make millions of dollars and decide I
>just want to read books and stop running online services, the repositories
>don't become inaccessible.
alioth.debian.org, anyone? That one went away pretty fast.
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