[Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

[B. Watson]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, Jeremy Hansen wrote:

> If this isn't something you're ok with, that's fine, but it seems
> unlikely SBo admins will lock down the repo, and even if they do,
> there are likely many people that will still mirror it to GitHub and
> other code repos.

This.

Before SBo itself ever used github, random package maintainers cloned
our repo to github, for their own use (ease of tracking their own
changes).

We never made a rule against it, and if we had, we would have had no
way to enforce it.

Personally I agree with the anti-github sentiment. I never trusted it,
and never use it beyond downloading tarballs or cloning repos from it.
I never created a user account there. But I don't see a way to keep
our code off github, since anyone on the planet can create a github
account and clone our repo from git.slackbuilds.org. That's how git
was intended work.