On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 1:13 PM Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>> Kudos for your work on this, Mark. Is there any chance that this is > >>> also available on a source code repository? > >> > >> I can understand the desire for this, but I personally do not have the > >> server resources required to host a 388 megabyte source tarball for > >> public download, sorry. > > > > There are several free repos out there; GitLab, Bit Bucket, > > Sourceforge, etc. I think GNU runs one as well called > > Savannah. q.v. > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html > > & https://about.gitlab.com/2015/05/20/gitlab-gitorious-free-software > > To be clear, I'm not officially part of the upstream IceCat project. I > haven't even asked for commit access to the git repository. I'm just a > volunteer who stepped up to contribute some patches, and I happen to be > the defacto maintainer of the IceCat package in GNU Guix. > > If someone else would like to build the preliminary source tarball using > Guix and make it available for public download, I would welcome it. I'm > already heavily overloaded with other urgent tasks unrelated to IceCat, > and I cannot afford to take on another job, sorry. > No worries, I understand.
