Gusted <[email protected]> writes: > 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. > > -- > https://codeberg.org > Codeberg e.V. – Arminiusstraße 2-4 – 10551 Berlin – Germany > Registered at registration court Amtsgericht Charlottenburg VR36929.
Hi Gusted, Thanks a lot for getting in touch! I think while this is a very reasonable suggestion to fix the problem, it would be a barrier for new contributors to Guix. And we switched to a web forge for that barrier to be lower. Maybe instead, we can arrange with the Guix foundation to sponsor that storage? Thanks, Noé
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