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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