On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:48 AM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Josh Boyer wrote: > > Would you be willing to pay for that feature? > > Probably not, because at that point, it would probably be cheaper to just > set up a mirror or even a full-fledged build system on a VPS somewhere. Or > even to use OBS, though I do not know what their retention policies for old > repositories are (i.e., whether they are any better or even worse).
Ok. Then perhaps you should pursue the mirror idea to solve your needs. Putting that into a cloud storage bucket seems like it would give you what you want. > What makes Copr so interesting is that it is offered at no cost to all > Fedora contributors. But it has always been treated as an unloved stepchild > by Red Hat and has never received the kind of resources, e.g., OBS has. > Though it is still better than what smaller distributions like Arch are able > to offer, where, e.g., the AUR only allows publishing the source PKGBUILD > files and no binaries at all. Yes, COPR is great. But "indefinite storage" or "user defined storage" is not a core tenant of what it is for. Keeping it free while iterating on useful features requires limitations elsewhere. To be clear, I am in no way suggesting COPR should ever move to a paid-for model. I'm just highlighting that it's a free service that has operating costs and budget and it is reasonable to limit that in some ways. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
