Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > (and I'm not going to pay extortionist .org fees to keep > > public-inbox.org when it comes up for renewal in 2023, > > maybe everyone can use Tor .onions by then :> ) > > Just on this tangent. Would you be willing to keep the domain and > keep the service running, if Git Project Leadership Committee pays > the fee out of the funds we keep at Software Freedom Conservancy? Maybe... I'm against the *principle* of paying extortionists; and I don't think the Git project should encourage them, either. Promoting + developing a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for Message-ID (and git OID) lookups to fight against centralization would be a better use of time and funds :> However, if EFF and other .orgs prove effective in keeping prices reasonable then that's fine, I guess. I personally expect to be financially worse off in 2023 than I was in 2013 when I bought the domain, so some help there could be nice :) The actual cost of running a service is only $20/month in VPS hosting. It's a business expense at the moment as I hack on that machine for clients, and I'm trying to make public-inbox cheaper and easier to host, too. But, https://lore.kernel.org/git/ has professionals behind it and is more scalable. It's currently missing syntax highlighting and blob regeneration because that's a PITA to configure, though...
