On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > > Backups, time to maintain, bandwidth for the backups, testing when we make > > changes, people to notify should our Infrastructure get compromised again, > > etc, the unknown. > > Backups really are equivalent to disk space. Testing for changes -- > maybe. But if it's really that inactive, then a change is unlikely to > break it. And if it does, then when someone notices, they'll holler. > yeah, when you backup to disk over a LAN, neither of which we do. > Yes, it may be ancient history, but it's still history. And there's a > lot that can be learned from history. Just ask the people that have > done things like importing _all_ kernel history since the dawn of time > (that at least they can find tarballs for). Or ajax and his "X since > the dawn of time" archive. > > > I guess I'm just putting my foot down on this since almost all the support > > for "keep everything around forever" has come from people that don't have > > to deal with the consequences of that decision. This isn't a file being > > kept on someones desktop... > > You're right, it's not a file that's being kept on someone's desktop. > It's something far more important -- it's the DNA of the evolution of > open source. > Then they can keep their DNA somewhere else. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
