Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us
> (that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and
> clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you.

While that should certainly happen if you want to continue with
development, if the concern is that we don't lose the tarballs for the
packages in the tree the easiest solution is for the maintainers to
grab a copy and stick it in their dev web space and point the SRC_URI
there.  Unless the project was already in git that is likely to be
easier than trying to re-create the same tarballs in some other repo
like github.

That is, assuming the current fashion is to host stuff like this in
dev web space.  It seems like that comes and goes, but in the absence
of anything better it probably will do and beats having the files just
vanish some day.

Rich