Archiving packages on GitLab

[mw]

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 08:02:52 UTC, Martin B 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.
>
> Since git is a distributed version control system, used repos 
> are backed up by the community automatically - as long as it's 
> being used.

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.