[RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket

[C-S]

>Sure it worth. From my POV, maintainer should be avoided the pleasure to 
> mess with selfhosted and selfpackaged tarballs as much as possible. 
> Besides of inconvenience it also less reliable (both in availability and 
> security aspects).
> 
> > I'm perfectly happy to mirror anything if needed, by the way.
> >
> > Chris
> 

Selfhosting can be very helpful. I once had many downloads of hiawatha
from my server in my logs. So, I checked the hashes and discovered that
the distfile from the original homepage was not the same anymore. The
author of hiawatha had changed the file without any announcements...

Carlo