On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:09:27PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> > the folks at github contacted me and came on #p5p to say that
> > they really, really want Perl and are more than willing to help out in any way
> > they can. I've put them in touch with Leon, git TODO czar, so we'll see what
> > happens.
>
> I could envision some good mutual publicity from making them an
> "official mirror" or similar. I don't see any advantages to the Perl
> community that would come from making them own the authoritative
> repository. People have already invested quite a bit of effort into
> setting things up under perl.org, including collecting ssh keys for
> committers, creating experimental rsync mirrors, etc. Changing
> hosting providers at this point would probably derail or delay a
> process that is already a bit starved for time and talent.
>
> Or did I misunderstand the meaning of "really want Perl"?
I agree with Craig but why weren't these guys directed to the TPF proper? It
seems like cooperative agreements should fall under that umbrella and who
knows, perhaps someone would want to sweeten the pot enough to make it worth
doing...
-J
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