Thanks for the heads up, … yes, I saw the previous discussion and no, my proposal is not meant to target any of the current activities.
Just wanted to raise the question, if mirroring has been considered at any stage, or if this is completely out of scope. The mirrors are rather a developer convenience and not meant to replace the main repositories. Best, Christoph > On 26 Oct 2014, at 15:12, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 26/10/2014 Christoph Emmersberger wrote: >> I’m reaching out, in order to get your thoughts on the creation of GitHub >> mirrors for existing Apache Extras project. > > Since you are not subscribed to the list, you have probably missed a relevant > discussion. See this month's archives: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201410.mbox/browser as > David explained in the JIRA issue and Ross explained here. > >> (1) Create an “Apache Extras” organisation on GitHub (similar to the Apache >> organisation [3]) >> (2) Notify Apache Extras projects about the existence of the GitHub >> organisation >> (3) Mirror existing Google code git repositories > > The current proof of concept is on SourceForge not only because they offered > to create it, but also because many projects use Apache Extras as a > repository of auxiliary tarballs. This is what both Github and Google Code > forbid with their recent policies (if I remember correctly). If it wasn't for > the policy changes, I'd happily continue to use Apache Extras on Google Code, > since we have hardcoded links to it in the OpenOffice source code. > > Regards, > Andrea.
