According to this story GitLab will be automatically deleting repos that are inactive for a year. Is there a way to archive D packages that use GitLab? I don't know how much GitLab is used, but I'd hate lose anything, considering the low cost of options such as Backblaze B2 or S3 Glacier.

On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 17:37:41 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

Or, I guess, other packages that someone might rage delete like https://forum.dlang.org/post/xfuzcjhkchdnfidnjhsf@forum.dlang.org

On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 17:37:41 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

This information is already out of date, so don't worry.

On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 22:12:22 UTC, user1234 wrote:

But still I think we should cache all the dub registered packages as backup, in case any project get deleted for whatever reasons. As we've seen in the other threads.

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 01:03:33 UTC, mw wrote:

Since git is a distributed version control system, used repos are backed up by the community automatically - as long as it's being used.

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 08:02:52 UTC, Martin B wrote:

The problem is that is local copy, nobody else can find the package and use it, that is why we need a central registry like dub.

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 16:05:09 UTC, mw wrote:

I think the best solution overall would have been to copy from source controls to a registry, so it doesn't fetch from github, but from its own registry and then only fetch each version once from source control.