Re: libwin32 repository on github

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, if you still have a copy of the repo. This was my point about "one
> big libwin32 repo" vs. individual repos for each module. Just for the
> sake of argument, let's say I get tired of maintaining Win32-OLE, remove
> all my local repos and one day GitHub goes away. Chris will then only
> have the Win32-IPC repo locally and Cosimo just the Win32-API repo, but
> Win32-OLE is gone (except for the releases on CPAN). If we keep all the
> modules in a single repo, then Chris and Cosimo will also have a local
> copy of the Win32-OLE change history (assuming they all exist in the
> "master" branch), so at least one of them could move the history
> elsewhere.

I suspect if we asked nicely we could get the Perl NOC to regularly
"git fetch" a list of repos as a backup.

Or have anyone run a batch job to mirror them somewhere.  For example,
I have a batch job that mirrors commits from perl5.git.perl.org to
git://github.com/dagolden/perl.git because the "official" github
mirror is always way behind.

I'm happy to do the same for a set of libwin32 repos, whether pushing
them to my own github clones or pushing them to perl5.perl.git.org
(assuming repos are created and I get rights to them).  Or the admins
of perl5.git.perl.org can set up a cron job to do it.

-- David