[hinkley]

Oh no, our decentralized VCS will be… decentralized!

Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted. That could create issues if you want to migrate.

I would rather have this happening after a contender to git has surfaced. Something for instance with more project tracking built in so migration were simpler.

[messe]

> Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted

I suspect Codeberg, which is focused on free software, will frown on them. They already disallow mirroring.

[maccard]

> They already disallow mirroring.

In which direction? (I'd check myself but they're down...). That doesn't sound very open to me.

[messe]

I was slightly wrong. You can manually mirror things, but they have removed a feature that allowed one to automatically mirror repositories hosted elsewhere. It was originally intended as an ease of migration tool, but ended up consuming too many resources.

From their FAQ:

> Why can't I mirror repositories from other code-hosting websites?

> Mirrors that pull content from other code hosting services were problematic for Codeberg. They ended up consuming a vast amount of resources (traffic, disk space) over time, as users that were experimenting with Codeberg would not delete those mirrors when leaving.

> A detailed explanation can be found in this blog post.[1]

[1]: https://blog.codeberg.org/mirror-repos-easily-created-consum...

[maccard]

Ah, thanks. That’s a very sensible take from them!

[hinkley]

That… makes squatting more of a problem not less.