[OSM-dev] Shutting down opestreetmap-mirror, can hand it off if anyone cares

[Grant Slater]

Thank you Ævar.

And thank you for the push all the years back towards git.

I think turning off the mirroring is a good idea... Most of us already
push directly to the git repos.

Kind regards,

Grant
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 12:20, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some of the repositories at https://github.com/openstreetmap, I think
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/josm is the most popular, are
> mirrored from Git or SVN via scripts hosted here:
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-mirror
>
> I set this up in 2010 and have been running it ever since. I'm not
> active in OpenStreetMap these days, and the server it's been running
> on will be decommissioned in the next few days. It's done via the
> https://github.com/openstreetmap-mirror user.
>
> If anyone's interested in continuing this service I'd be happy to hand
> off that GitHub user to someone (not that a new one couldn't be
> created). The scripts / crontabs are already in the GitHub repo above.
> They currently take around 2GB of storage.
>
> The problem is not that I don't have a server to run this on (I have
> one). I'd need to set this up again, and don't want to spend time on
> doing that or maintaining a service that I myself no longer use.
>
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