From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE9321581EE for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gentoo.org (bobolink.gentoo.org [140.211.166.189]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: relay-lists.gentoo.org@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADFCF3433C4 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DA21104B5; Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3ED4A110296 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.254.110] (97-113-195-225.tukw.qwest.net [97.113.195.225]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jayf) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19E2334316B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------Eo0XerxYMN3vrmj0WmiVZxu9" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:15:04 -0700 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <6b358608f6e244cb96ce527ad47b3e0483eaf0c6.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Jay Faulkner In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: d0c4ab11-5b3e-4bcc-aee5-084b7bc5ac84 X-Archives-Hash: d42073d8e59d7264b78a00789186ebc1 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------Eo0XerxYMN3vrmj0WmiVZxu9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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? - Jay Faulkner --------------Eo0XerxYMN3vrmj0WmiVZxu9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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?

- Jay Faulkner

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