Re:Bitbucket Down - Major Outage
by icebraining on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:47AM
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You don't need a Blockchain for that. You just store the public keys of the allowed users on the repository itself.
Giving readable names to repositories is a possible use case, although I'd just use DNS.
Yeah, I guess you are right, a blockchain is probably not an absolute requirement for that. I think though, that decentralized maintenance of open source project would be a logical next step, and a blockchain-based system could certainly be useful there. This could help prevent a lot of stale/abandoned projects from dying where the only maintainers of a project leave it to rot and there is no one left to review PRs coming from the community.
Re:Bitbucket Down - Major Outage
by icebraining on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:58AM
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How would the blockchain help there?
You can also leave stuff like that out, but then you will end up with a system where everyone can only push to their own forks leaving us with a very splintered distributed system. To compensate we would need a much better system for distributed content discovery than anything I've seen so far.