so are there plans to move to mirror the repositories elsewhere ?

Many seem to have the attitude here that regardless of what nokia does - the mameo community support will live on.

But this is not true, if (when ?) Nokia pulls the plug on funding, the repositories go down and community support for maemo effectively ends ?

Is this the situation now ? i.e. there are no backup plans and maemo community support is in practice at the whim of Nokia ?

If so I think the first priority is to have maemo support independent of Nokia funding. Given Nokia's company direction now and emphasis on cost cutting, it is very likely funding will be pulled.

Any plans for this ?