> I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* > service in recognition of its value to the project.
Summarizing the discussion so far:
(1) drain of funds / should Debian really purchase disk space of that size?
(1.4TB, growing and growing...)
(2) there is also the morgue (60G but only goes back a few months)
(3) snapshot.d.n is useful for security - so far only source was used for
this purpose
(4) for various purposes, old binaries also seem useful; especially since
the old binaries can not (easily) be regenerated from the sources.
(5) the indexing is really nice (compared with what the morgue offers)
Comments:
- why not leave it where it is now, just add the DNS alias
- How much *does* Debian spend on resources right now? Not much, afaict -
most resources are sponsored by somebody (as is current
snapshot.debian.net).
- to limit the growth: keep x years of binaries, y years of source, and
rely on past Debian releases for the really ancient stuff.
Conclusion: so far, I get the feeling that snapshot is a service that would
be missed if it were discontinued, so I think 'awarding' it a debian.org
alias is justified.
NOTE I haven't spoken Fumitoshi Ukai, who is maintaining snapshot.d.n
afaict, so maybe he has totally different views.
so long
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