Hello Guix developers,
I would like to raise awareness to Codeberg's recent change in quotas
groups [0]. This itself has no effect to Guix, but this did result in
that users that registered since two days ago are no longer able to fork
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix as this is more than 750 MiB of storage
and forks are simply not de-duplicated [1].
This doesn't mean new users aren't able to contribute anymore, they can
still do that with the AGit workflow [2], which allows you to create a
pull request without needing a fork. However in the current UI no
mention of AGit is being made... as such I would like to propose that
the fork button is turned to a link to the AGit workflow documentation.
Which to be honestly would also help on the storage sides of things,
each fork does really take few gigabytes on disk and it requires quite
some manual labor on our side to find, verify and remove forks that are
no longer being used.
Changing the fork button is a simple setting on our side, you can see
how it would look like at gentoo's repository [3].
Let me know if you have any questions, reservations or disagreements, or
simply find this OK.
[0]: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/changelog/issues/2#issuecomment-15980345
[1]: Forks are hard linked, but guix is getting occasionally GC'ed which
effectively makes the hard link useless for de-duplication purposes.
[2]: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/
[3]: https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo
Kind Regards
Gusted
Codeberg e.V.
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