From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKwBq-0004Fd-LN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:02:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7113A21C08E; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A832321C080 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so3555130bkb.40 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:01:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=CgoqpBhAKJ503jHlVQqcTGfmY6vRcfG9hJ2UWGOT11E=; b=XIHXPWDZKnQNrtzsgxSGanHQHQ4ylMc15rTu9mvb2r8cHJPx2svJTtGfOi6byDtEx5 Et8Z48q31v7g9XghPxd0oNgOrRi9YRVBfqNIkOxl2xr7kvHRXvHf8dNKm8n62XmtBg+M FrFiiTm6EIaj529hoHh53mNlJ5neactdkqlHY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.140.81 with SMTP id h17mr11841570bku.101.1320084116674; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.65.195 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:01:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1320066596.10062.38.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:01:56 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: LNGaZQKKjnfdR13JiRUv6GjX-os Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: e0b2949b-fb3c-4c75-a381-948d49a2ec22 X-Archives-Hash: 90ba3e91eab6e4044212ec6224a634c7 On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Alec Warner 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