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Re:GitHub is down by rvz on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:59AM (#20499271)
Even worse if libraries / packages are only hosted on Github. Then the main ecosystem of a language dependent on those packages can grind to a full stop from there.

I'm looking at all of you CocoaPods, SwiftPM, npm, Cargo, vgo.

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Re:GitHub is down by cameronbrown on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:07PM (#20499361)
Insanity. Having an emergency mirror on standby is not hard when it's critical infrastructure. Surely npm/Cargo/etc.. could do this.
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Re:GitHub is down by knd775 on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:35PM (#20500869)
I think I'll set this up now https://github.com/local-npm/local-npm
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Re:GitHub is down by otterlicious on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:29PM (#20502022)
The npm registry itself does not depend on GitHub.

It's true that most developers rely on GitHub for pushing to the registry, but there are a handful that use GitLab or self host that would be totally unaffected.

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Re:GitHub is down by michaelper22 on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:15PM (#20499438)
AdoptOpenJDK builds are hosted there too; found out about the outage trying to download one.
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