Mirror services (Re: CTI - Making a decision for glibc.)

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 1/30/26 11:06 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 11:26:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Maybe it would make sense to try them out with things that would be
>> actually useful, not risky, and not viable for our current providers to
>> offer, such as git and web mirrors run by separate organizations,
>> bringing about some of the redundancy that I mentioned as potentially
>> useful back when this started being discussed.
> 
> I think this is a good suggestion. Having (read-only) mirrors of git
> repos and the mailinglists seem like safe things the LF could provide
> that would add value. We can setup grokmirror for the git repos and
> the LF already knows how to handle public-inbox archives.

I agree.

In practice for a move for glibc we could retain the Sourceware git
repos as read-only grokmirror repos?

It was already suggested in the Office Hours for CTI that we could
start by mirroring GCC's repos to review the size requirements.

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Cheers,
Carlos.