Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down
by jrockway on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:05PM
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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.
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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.