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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:58:15 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
To:        Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>, "Klaus T. Aehlig" <aehlig@linta.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket direct support.
Message-ID:  <CADLo83_R4GB3vnP9pkckvKOX6kw4es_VVxcKk8cc5ZP4yuzr3Q@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <765103585.20110909143052@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20110909130458.GO31003@azathoth.lan> <20110909132437.GA66311@kta1c10.sesnet.soton.ac.uk> <20110909142857.GP31003@azathoth.lan> <CADLo83_Kk9FgdfAmKPEQT79oG%2BOqO7fDqy5RAbXGpwBCtjpdnA@mail.gmail.com> <4E6BA2CF.508@yandex.ru>

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On 10 September 2011 18:47, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Chris Rees wrote on 10.09.2011 21:33:
>>
>>
>> Counterexamples welcome!
>>
>> Chris
>
> When i worked on net/erlyvideo port there on github were tarballs for some
> old versions of it. When i asked author to create tarballs for new versions
> too, he just delete all the tarballs :)
> So i just create and host them by myself.
>

Hm, plain spiteful.  I like to think (or hope) that's not
representative of most of our upstream friends ;)

The main question is, is it worth us writing code to handle a small
minority of projects that refuse, or is it just easier to host this
same minority ourselves?

I'm perfectly happy to mirror anything if needed, by the way.

Chris



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