Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors

[Jay Faulkner <jayf@gentoo.org>]

On 3/25/25 11:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 16:15 -0700, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>> On 3/25/2025 1:51 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 08:46 -0400, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:
>>>> I've been following the discussion, but I still don't know enough to have
>>>> an opinion. Why was this infrastructure created in the first place?
>>> There's a number of reasons, and they are still valid today:
>> [snip]
>>
>> I'm mildly surprised that "get someone else to host this for 'free'"
>> isn't one of the reasons. I'm assuming there's plenty of headroom on
>> Gentoo's git servers to handle the influx of git requests that would
>> likely be a side effect of this change?
>>
> Most of the mirrored repositories aren't on Gentoo git server.  This is
> part of the problem, because we're already seeing git incompatibilities
> between Codeberg and GitHub.
>

Ah, this makes a lot of sense. Codeberg in particular has been hit hard 
with DoS attacks recently; I bet it has been maintenance-hell. Thanks 
for the context.


-Jay