[Coco] sourceforge insurance

[Gene Heskett]

Greeting, Tormod, Boisy, Aaron

Its apparent the new management at sourceforge is determined to monetize 
whats there by any means.

Major projects have forked & left, starting with GIMP.

I think its about time we took some action to preserve our repository in 
case it dissappears like several other have recently.

To that end, I am thinking of doing a clone on a daily basis, running 30 
days deep since I have the drive space here.  IOW, what I'd have here 
will be snapshots of the last 30 days, so we can backup a week or more 
if we have to restore it someplace else.  The clone is a complete copy 
from what I understand, each of which is capable of standalone 
operation.

Github charges a monthly fee for using their services, the magnitude of 
which I don't know. But we all know someone has to pay the electric 
bill, buy the bandwidth and service the machines.  Basically its 
TANSTAAFL folks and we may as well get used to it.

But TBT, that probably ought to be done by someone both younger than I, 
and more familiar with the inner workings of hg.  Sure, my machine is 
sitting here doing not a lot more than handling my email with a minimum 
of interaction from me.  And I am nowhere near the bandwidth usage that 
would trigger an extra charge for my current provision from Shentel.

But what happens when I fall over?  My current physical health says I do 
NOT have another decade since I am 80 and have been a DM-II for 30+ 
years now.  And there is absolutely no one who could walk in the door 
and take over for me when I am finished.

So, do we have another volunteer to host the repo, do we pass that hat 
annually?  

Sourceforge is going out unless they turn the direction around to be more 
inline with FOSS, which they are running away from as fast as they can.

We need an insurance policy copy of the repo someplace where a simple 
edit of our updating scripts can move it transparently.

What say the rest of you?  How do we handle a sourceforge lockout?  That 
is what they are doing, then it shows up again as a click the link and 
pay download.  Bundled with all sorts of addware and viri.  We don't 
need that, and should be prepared for that day.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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