[Neurodebian-devel] git sources for neuro.debian.net?

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Paul Ivanov wrote:
> > hm, could you help me -- why would we need 1 more clone to our
> > few?  I see no fixes/additions we could pull from it ;)  or am I missing
> > the point?
> Redundancy is the point :)  (though I'm not ruling out additions)

please just point in the description to the original repository.
Redundancy is beneficial unless it brings confusion without necessity.

> There are many projects that use github exclusively (not you
> guys, those "other" people ;) ) - that it's just a matter of time
> before github goes down and those projects get temporarily
> crippled. I want to minimize the chance of that happening for
> projects I care about. It's about having an Emergency
> Preparedness plan and reducing the number of points of failure.

;-)  github people are very smart -- little github has grown into a
giant in no time.  But unless bought out by some monster who doesn't
give a damn about open-source, I do not expect github to disappear
from the throne of the best open-source development portal.

> > > (The reason I ask is that it looks like that git repo hasn't been
> > > updated in 3 months, whereas I think the repository selection
> > > inspired by Stephan Gerhard is more recent than that)
> > I guess I must home and stop working today --- what "repository
> > selection"? I must have been skipping through emails
> I used the wrong vocabulary - I meant the "New repository
> setup instruction." which Michael committed on March 22nd.

Ah, I got it now ;)

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