Re: GitGitGadget on git/git, was Re: Should we auto-close PRs on git/git?

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Nov 27, 2019, 02:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20191127023745.GA15031@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa78iw0f8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> 
> > (and I'm not going to pay extortionist .org fees to keep
> >  public-inbox.org when it comes up for renewal in 2023,
> >  maybe everyone can use Tor .onions by then :> )
> 
> Just on this tangent.  Would you be willing to keep the domain and
> keep the service running, if Git Project Leadership Committee pays
> the fee out of the funds we keep at Software Freedom Conservancy?

Maybe... I'm against the *principle* of paying extortionists; and I don't think the Git project should encourage them, either.

Promoting + developing a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for Message-ID (and git OID) lookups to fight against centralization would be a better use of time and funds :>

However, if EFF and other .orgs prove effective in keeping prices reasonable then that's fine, I guess. I personally expect to be financially worse off in 2023 than I was in 2013 when I bought the domain, so some help there could be nice :)

The actual cost of running a service is only $20/month in VPS hosting. It's a business expense at the moment as I hack on that machine for clients, and I'm trying to make public-inbox cheaper and easier to host, too.

But, https://lore.kernel.org/git/ has professionals behind it and is more scalable. It's currently missing syntax highlighting and blob regeneration because that's a PITA to configure, though...