Comment by hinkley

Comment by hinkley 3 hours ago

4 replies

Oh no, our decentralized VCS will be… decentralized!

Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted. That could create issues if you want to migrate.

I would rather have this happening after a contender to git has surfaced. Something for instance with more project tracking built in so migration were simpler.

messe 3 hours ago

> Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted

I suspect Codeberg, which is focused on free software, will frown on them. They already disallow mirroring.

  • maccard 2 hours ago

    > They already disallow mirroring.

    In which direction? (I'd check myself but they're down...). That doesn't sound very open to me.

    • messe 2 hours ago

      I was slightly wrong. You can manually mirror things, but they have removed a feature that allowed one to automatically mirror repositories hosted elsewhere. It was originally intended as an ease of migration tool, but ended up consuming too many resources.

      From their FAQ:

      > Why can't I mirror repositories from other code-hosting websites?

      > Mirrors that pull content from other code hosting services were problematic for Codeberg. They ended up consuming a vast amount of resources (traffic, disk space) over time, as users that were experimenting with Codeberg would not delete those mirrors when leaving.

      > A detailed explanation can be found in this blog post.[1]

      [1]: https://blog.codeberg.org/mirror-repos-easily-created-consum...

  • hinkley an hour ago

    That… makes squatting more of a problem not less.