#90 supported git-annex version & alternative hosting services

Currently this repository requires an old version of git-annex<10.

In the future this repo might be moved to a different hosting service to permit the usage of the latest git-annex (and datalad) version for file content retrieval.

Alternative options are

• github + OSF (see datalad-osf)
• github + another special remote (see datalad list of special remotes)
• different proposals?

These approaches would make accessing the data more complicated, as two services are involved, that both might require authentication to retrieve the data, e.g see datalad-osf example

Is there a pressing need for this? Are there features of newer git-annex we want to leverage or is a component of our pipeline dropping support for older versions?

It's not pressing for any of the projects I am aware of. However, there might be other projects around using this repository here that might have different requirements. This would be the time to speak up :)

Hi Julia, thanks for this discussion. For the choice is mainly be : how long the service will maintain. OSF solution sound appealing on long term, no ?

Lets make a call around no ?