Re: Moving guix-science from GitHub?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Saluton!

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@cnrs.fr> skribis:

> But then, given that moving has a high cost (for the reasons pointed out
> by Ricardo), we should take a long-term perspective. I expect forĝejo to
> be a more interesting platform in the long run, both technically
> (Fediverse) and socially (not for profit).

Yes, that was also my feeling.

>  1. How much effort would it be to implement forĝejo support in Cuirass?

Not too much, as I wrote.

>  2. In view of federated forges, which facilitate some aspects of moving
>     between forges, maintaining mirrors, etc., could we come up with
>     a way to make Guix channels easier to relocate, and/or have multiple
>     URLs?

Authentication and downgrade prevention make it safe to use a mirror,
and the other thing is that channels advertise their “primary URL”,
which allows you to know when you’re using a mirror (or when the channel
has moved).  And then there’s SWH fall back when a commit ID is
available.

So there are pieces in place, but it would be nice to extend that
somehow so we can gradually abstract away the actual storage location.

Thanks,
Ludo’.