[Gllug] Do many people use their own local repos/mirrors

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:59:05PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> Hi GLLUGers
> 
> I'm working on a "smart mirror" catalyst web application and was
> wondering how many people use their own repos, mirrors and mini-cpans
> to get an idea of usage etc and if people would pay for somebody else
> to provide something like that for them, yes it'll be all or mostly
> open sourced, if it's successful I'd like to be able to provide some
> commercial services to cover the project development costs and/or
> subsidise my other open source coding.

I have local mirrors of things that interest me, partly so that I don't have
to wait to install (ie local network rather than broadband), and also because
there is more than one machine that uses it. True I download stuff that never gets
used, but I still think that it is worth it.

I also have my own repos, mainly of stuff that I have written, it is easier to
keep my & customers' machine up to date by just putting something up into the
repo and have it auto update.

Would I pay for such a service: no. It isn't hard to do and if I do it myself
I have complete control.

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