Linux development is also centralized. Instead of Github they use an email list that has patches sent to it. If that goes down, your change isn't going into Linux today.
That's the entire point of it being decentralized. It doesn't have to, nor do you need it to.
I contend that if you submit a patch under any circumstances your change isn’t going into linux today.
Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down
by confooseddd on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:50PM
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You do know what's a mailing list right? You seem to be confusing it with GitHub.
A mailing list can go down and nothing would happen. The main point is to post patches to the maintainer. The mailing list is for a public record of things.
The only centralised thing is repo hosting on kernel.org. And that isn't the only official place, you can get the repo published on googlesource or GitHub, so it isn't exactly central enough.
I suppose that's true. In any case, though, getting a backup mailing list going is much much easier than something like GitHub, and you can always mail patches directly if maintainers allow it.
Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down
by Over2Chars on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:24PM
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I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which rankled the ire of the FOSS community who wanted to eat their own dogfood.
So Torvald's opted to "clone" the features of bitkeeper into an open source version he named 'git'.
That's the story I heard, no idea if it's true.
They were using BitKeeper for years but git was created when BitKeeper pulled the rug licensing-wise.
Source: A Git Story from https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/
github basically shoves a webby frontend and workflows on top of someone else's work. That's all fine and good but github is not git.
As a professional IT consultant, I want tools, I use lots of other's and I also create my own and I also generally insist on hosting my own. I'm also a fair carpenter and several other trades. I have tools for all my trades and I look after all of them. That way I can guarantee quality - or at least reproducible and documented quality.
I'm sure you are fine with abrogating responsibility for stuff that you are not able to deal with - that's all good: Your choice.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to say: "Yay cloud"