On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:09:13PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-02-13 at 03:25 -0500, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 08:06:54AM +0000, m1027 wrote:
> > > > We would like to announce that Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg
> > > 
> > > Congrats!
> > > 
> > > Is this also meant for the user's daily portage update (emerge --sync)?
> > 
> > At the moment, nothing. Currently codeberg does not host the "sync
> > friendly mirror" that includes news and metadata that I can see.
> > Unless you're sync'ing using the dev repo which I wouldn't recommend.
> > 
> > To clarify by comparing with github, these are different things:
> > https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo (sync mirror)
> > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (dev repo)
> > 
> > Imagine codeberg will have it in the future given we already have
> > a "gentoo-mirror" placeholder there, but either way may as well use
> > Microsoft's resources/bandwidth with github rather than anongit or
> > codeberg when it is just for cloning :). Ultimately is the same after
> > verifying signatures.
> 
> So far I don't think we really deliberated on that.  The key point here
> is that unlike GitHub, Codeberg is running on community funding, and we
> don't want to abuse their resources with the huge syncing repo.

I see, wasn't sure.

Either way I do agree that we may as well use github for anything heavy
that does not really require us to interact with its UI or AI features
(crate tarballs, sync'ing, etc...).
-- 
ionen

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