It is really great that KDE people are actually sharing this experience. This is really profitable for other projects as well as individuals.
And thanks for sharing it here.
Just an idea here: why not adding a new subdomain in
postgresql.org for mirrors of the official GIT repository
similar to the buildfarm?
People registered in this service could publish themselves mirrors and decide by themselves the delay their
clone keeps with the parent repo. The scripts used by each mirror maintainer (for backup, sync repo with
a given delay) could be centralized in a way similar to buildfarm code so as everybody in the community could
use it and publish it if they want.
Also, the mirrors published should be maintained by people that are well-known inside the community,
and who would not add extra commits which would make the mirror out-of-sync with the parent repo.
Such an idea is perhaps too much if the point is to maintain 2-3 mirrors of the parent repo, but gives
enough transparency to actually know where the mirrors are and what is the sync delay maintained.
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