22 sats \ 2 replies \ @EnormousPony 16 Sep 2022
Git is a decentralized protocol in nature, Github is just a convenient UI that wraps Git.
There's no need for Yet Another Saas because btc devs could just use git and a mailing list.
If Linux can do it then bitcoin can
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @happy OP 16 Sep 2022
Does mailing list gets complicate when you have more than 50 devs?
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @EnormousPony 16 Sep 2022
No, again look at Linux they have coordinated and discussed development through mailing list for 2 decades and it works.
Of course it can be confusing at first but then you get used to it
Source: I used to contribute to Linux years ago
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @pillar 16 Sep 2022
The Github repo is by no means a centralized failure point. The amount of cloned copies of the repo out there make it impossible to kidnap the code.
Devs could easily gather around in another git server. It's trivial technology.
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