On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 22:05:17 -0700, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >Sean Whitton <spwhit...@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. -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
