> I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* > service in recognition of its value to the project. Summarizing the discussion so far: (1) drain of funds / should Debian really purchase disk space of that size? (1.4TB, growing and growing...) (2) there is also the morgue (60G but only goes back a few months) (3) snapshot.d.n is useful for security - so far only source was used for this purpose (4) for various purposes, old binaries also seem useful; especially since the old binaries can not (easily) be regenerated from the sources. (5) the indexing is really nice (compared with what the morgue offers) Comments: - why not leave it where it is now, just add the DNS alias - How much *does* Debian spend on resources right now? Not much, afaict - most resources are sponsored by somebody (as is current snapshot.debian.net). - to limit the growth: keep x years of binaries, y years of source, and rely on past Debian releases for the really ancient stuff. Conclusion: so far, I get the feeling that snapshot is a service that would be missed if it were discontinued, so I think 'awarding' it a debian.org alias is justified. NOTE I haven't spoken Fumitoshi Ukai, who is maintaining snapshot.d.n afaict, so maybe he has totally different views. so long -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro)
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