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[PATCH maintenance] hydra: bayfront: Set up ‘git.guix.gnu.org’ as a redirect to Savannah.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Noé Lopez <noelopez <at> free.fr>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, 76296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guix-sysadmin <at> gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#76296] [PATCH maintenance] hydra: bayfront: Set up ‘git.guix.gnu.org’ as a redirect to Savannah.
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 13:56:11 +0200

Hi Noé,

Noé Lopez <noelopez <at> free.fr> writes:

> As you said, this adds an extra point of failure. It seems that there is
> no real issue with changing URL right now as shown by GCD 002. So what
> is the benefit of this patch?

This was originally proposed as a way to facilitate Git migration—should
we decide in a year to migrate to, say, github.com :-) (or more
seriously: to self-host.)

But as Chris wrote, it’s also a good way to keep infra under the
project’s control, and provides a way to add redundancy through
mirroring for instance.

Ludo’.

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