OOoooyay·Apr 20, 2024Submission
The Athens Project – a Go module proxy
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athens
Go2018–2024
gomods / athens
athens
A Go module datastore and proxy
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A Go module datastore and proxy
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Observed mentions: 2018-07-25 16:56:37 UTC to 2024-04-20 21:35:10 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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12 sourcesAthens, a self-hosted free Go proxy implementation, implements rate-limiting for GitHub (with a pretty horrific Github-specific behavior). This means GitHub does implement rate-limiting to cope with aggressive Go proxies.
https://github.com/gomods/athens/blob/723c06bd8c13cc7bd238e6...
Food for thoughts.
In Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a yearIf you download a package that supports go mod and try to build it, it'll automatically try to fetch dependencies through proxy.golang.org
You can override the proxy, and there are open source implementations of the module datastore[1], but it's not made clear front and centre to the end user that building software will call a Google owned service.
It was a source of contention for some when the default toolchain moved in this direction.[2]
[1] https://github.com/gomods/athens
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20870264
In Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineeringIf you use Go, then try one of the new self-hosted repositories, such as github.com/gomods/athens since it allows you to archive every dependency you ever update so you can always retrieve past dependencies.
In Former developer at software company deletes his code to protest its ties to ICEFWIW, it is very easy to setup the athens proxy and run it. You could even have it route traffic through Tor if you were so inclined. We use it and are a fan as is works nicely:
https://github.com/gomods/athens
In Google’s GDPR WorkaroundA Proxy Server for the Go Modules Download API
1 points · Open discussionAthens: Go Module Datastore and Proxy
1 points · Open discussionThis project is called Athens[0] and is largely being worked on by the community and not the Go team directly.
[0]: https://github.com/gomods/athens
In Introduction to Go Modulesno it was added at the request of the athens project (github.com/gomods/athens) so there would be a canonical way to download modules that we could use to prime the cache.
In 'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' addedI believe the solution you're looking for is Athens[0], right?
[0] https://github.com/gomods/athens
In Russ Cox on Go dependency managementA package registry and proxy server for Go
1 points · Open discussion