Archiving packages on GitLab

[bauss]

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 16:05:09 UTC, mw wrote:
> 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.

I think the best solution overall would have been to copy from 
source controls to a registry, so it doesn't fetch from github, 
but from its own registry and then only fetch each version once 
from source control.