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Re:GitHub was down by foldr on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:22AM (#23676150)
I'm not sure how active Linus still is in git development, but at least historically, the issue there is that the Linux kernel dev workflow doesn't use any of those features.
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Re:GitHub was down by viraptor on Monday June 29, 2020 @07:22AM (#23676496)
That's not really true. Kernel development users PRs, but they're implemented as mailing list threads. They also do code reviews which are implemented as... mailing list threads. It's the most decentralised and vendor-agnostic implementation we can have right now.
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Re:GitHub was down by lopis on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:45AM (#23677052)
So an ideal solution would use mailing list threads as the protocol with a custom UI on top. Same as we use git as the protocol with GitHub eye candy on top. Imagine github as we have now, but all data for issues and PRs are saved as e-mail. Of course, that doesn't benefit GitHub in any way, so we'll never have that.
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Re:GitHub was down by foldr on Monday June 29, 2020 @07:58AM (#23676730)
Yes, but if you're happy to do everything by mailing lists, you don't have to worry about github going down.
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