Re: Bits from DPL

[Julien Plissonneau Duquène <sre4ever@free.fr>]

Le 2025-01-07 20:03, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> While I'd love to see all packages on Salsa

I think that being able to host the primary git repository of packages 
elsewhere is a freedom worth maintaining for many reasons.

What the Debian Project could (and probably should) do in these cases is 
to host a read-only mirror of the repository with most features disabled 
by default (no issues, no merge requests, no CI unless the maintainers 
switch them on), just keeping the possibility to fork the repository. 
This would mitigate the risk that the repository just vanishes, maybe 
help to alleviate some scaling issues like API rate limits on some 
platforms, and make it easier for would-be contributors to maintain a 
public fork for the platforms that make it complicated or impossible or 
have unreasonable ToS.

Cheers,

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Julien Plissonneau Duquène