I have been thinking about this for a while and I couldn't understand why the decentralized Bitcoin Core development needs to go seat inside Github a centralized group a very controls whom can shot the door anytime while everyone pretending it will always be open for us.
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10 sats \ 7 replies \ @ama 19 Nov 2023
Github has one copy of the Bitcoin code repository. Git is decentralized and what Github might do is irrelevant.
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
Do you think? Ok
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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @ama 19 Nov 2023
Of course. Each copy of the repository is equal, yours, mine, Github's, and every other one in existence. Github, Bitbucket, and other sites just give you a "convenient" web interface to make it nicer. You can set up your own with opensource alternatives, like GitLab.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
Whose server is it?
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @ama 19 Nov 2023
GitHub? According to the © on their site, it's a company called GitHub, Inc. I don't know anything about them.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
That's my point
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ama 19 Nov 2023
What? It doesn't matter what GitHub might do. Even if they decide to take down their web site tonight, Bitcoin doesn't care, and neither do we. We have thousand of copies of the Bitcoin code repository, and GitHub's isn't special.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
ok thanks, but it would be nice for boitcoin core dev to gather on a censorship resistant platform that doesn't have community guidelines
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @kristapsk 19 Nov 2023
Git is decentralized. Anybody who clones repository has full history of source code, all branches, etc. Only centralized thing is issue, pull request, code review comment history we could lose.
Related - https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues/1302.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
Well yeah, it's still a risk in my opinion. There are no decentralized servers out-there holding the bitcoin core codes in a decentralized manner, we would lose pull request, code reviews, histography, fixes, etc in case of a complete shutdown, that's not an if but a will in my opinion.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 19 Nov 2023
We don't lose commit history.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
ok
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60 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zepasta 19 Nov 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecoverBTC OP 19 Nov 2023
Even Nostr would work better in my opinion
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