Need free long-term git hosting

[Nguyễn Gia Phong]

On Sat Jul 2, 2022 at 12:53 PM -0400, Rémi Rampin wrote:
> I think however that the "long-term" aspect is a problem. How do
> we make sure software hosted outside of GitHub/GitLab (or even there)
> won't be lost due to a single hard drive failure, a single person
> not paying their bill, or the host losing interest (or the author
> force-pushing by mistake, etc).

Note that the original context was to preserve the projects' URL
because they're listed under LinkedIn.  While don't understand
the point of LinkedIn, the general issue is called link rot and
no host can guarantee against it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

On Sat Jul 2, 2022 at 12:53 PM -0400, Rémi Rampin wrote:
> A great resource for preservation is softwareheritage.org,

If we remove addressing out of the equation then a local clone
by anyone interested in the software would do the job just fine.
Software Heritage is a good incentive, yet it can as well just
disappear one day like any other individual forge.  It's great that
it's possible to run a mirror, but the storage requirement is no joke:
https://docs.softwareheritage.org/sysadm/mirror-operations/planning.html

> The global raw hardware requirements are:
>
> * a database system for the main storage of the archive (the graph
>   structure); the current volume is about 17TB, with an increase rate
>   of about 280GB/month,
> * an object storage system for the objects (archived software
>   source code files); the current volume is about 800TB with an
>   increase rate of about 21TB/month,
> * an elasticsearch engine; the current main index is about
>   180M entries (origins) for an index size of 360GB; the
>   increase rate is about 2M entries/month,