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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Github has one copy of the Bitcoin code repository. Git is decentralized and what Github might do is irrelevant.
Do you think? Ok
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.
Whose server is it?
GitHub? According to the © on their site, it's a company called GitHub, Inc. I don't know anything about them.
That's my point
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.
ok thanks, but it would be nice for boitcoin core dev to gather on a censorship resistant platform that doesn't have community guidelines
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.
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.
We don't lose commit history.
ok
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Even Nostr would work better in my opinion