It's worth highlighting the fact that Bitbucket will be deleting *all* hg repositories on May 30, 2020. Thankfully, the Software Heritage ( https://www.softwareheritage.org/) seems to be doing a great job of archiving all open source work. For example: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/directory/ I don't know how much they have archived or how up-to-date it is. It's worth converting repos to git anyway, especially if we want to continue maintaining them.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 9:11 PM Sean Hinchee <[email protected]> wrote: > In the wake of Bitbucket removing hg (Mercurial) support [1], I feel > it's topical to bring up software preservation for the plan9 > community. > > A lot of community contributed software has been put up on Bitbucket > or other hg hosts over time (RIP Google Code), but no consolidated > effort, to my knowledge, seems to have been made to index, let alone > mirror, this software. > > For now, as a stop-gap, I've made a GitHub organization in which I've > consolidated most of what I had indexed from Bitbucket and a few other > places. > > Thanks to people like Ori Bernstein, we have a native git client for > plan9 [3]; without a native client, this kind of transition wouldn't > be nearly as simple, thank you. > > I'm more than happy to add anyone interested in the curation of this > archive to the GitHub organization. It would be nice to have spare > hands around to add README's, mkfiles, and attributions where they > have been missed or never existed. > > In the long term, it would be nice to have a federated or otherwise > decentralized solution to pooling community contributed software, > especially keeping in mind ease of mirroring and picking up old > projects as contributors come and go. > > The contrib/ directory on sources and 9front are fine and good, but > they are centralized. I don't have a proposed solution to this > problem, but it would be nice to have ideas or insight posted ☺. > > I recognize that GitHub is also centralized and doesn't solve the > centralization problem, but at least git is really straightforward to > mirror with multiple remotes, etc. and having an index/archive is > valuable at least to me. > > If anyone has further thoughts, anything they want added, or any lists > or indices of works they want archived/mirrored, I would love to see > these posted. > > If anyone wants to mirror the archive, that would be wonderful. I was > considering mirroring everything to a remote in sr.ht in the future, > but haven't gotten around to it. > > As a footnote, there's a decent git client written in Go that works > alright on plan9 [4], but it's slow and memory intensive at the > moment. > > Cheers, > Sean > > [1] https://twitter.com/traverser/status/1244398479591563265 > [2] https://github.com/Plan9-Archive > [3] https://github.com/oridb/git9 > [4] https://github.com/driusan/dgit ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T303744e1ec6d2108-M3889534780ac09733b7bf1cd Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
