Pjotr Prins writes: > By hosting source packages on IPFS they become content addressable and > should scale for downloads. It would also become a safe way of > distributing data. > > https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs > > Essentially the interplanetary file system allows for distributed > storage servers and a distributed DNS style resolution for finding > files. It allows people to share storage and by pooling storage we > can provide resilient access to all source packages. Especially the > ones that prove dodgy now. > > This should be fairly trivial to implement as long as some of us can > commit some storage. We could use the build farm. > > Next we can do the same for binary Guix packages. It would make for > way faster downloads when the Guix-deamon supports the protocol. > > Can we look into this? Who of us can host IPFS and expose port 4001? I > can put in some.
I would be willing to dedicate (part of the) resources on a UK based (small) VPS for an initiative of this type (doesn't necessarily have to be IPFS, but this sounds good so far :-) ). Best wishes, Alex
