pull down to refresh
I am wondering how the Bitcoin Core developers reacted to this. Do they have fallbacks?
There was some discussion about this during Austin Bit Devs last month. I think there are several mirrors. A lot of the context is indeed on GitHub though.
Yeah, issues and comments (which can be quite important for a repository imo) are unfortunately not included in a git repository so migration of these is not trivial.
I will have to look this up. Thanks for your response!
Yeah they need to get backed up somehow. GitHub probably doesnt offer an API for that
Actually, it looks like they do have an API for that https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/rest-api-description/main/descriptions-next/ghes-3.6/ghes-3.6.yaml
The repo owner shall file GDPR date export request to backup the issues once a month.
I'm mirroring my projects on sr.ht after this happened. Perhaps Github should be the mirror
The founder of source hut is aggressively against bitcoin (and crypto) projects. I feel less comfortable having my projects on there than on github based on my interactions with the founder.
Yet the damage is already done, as they've shown their hand. I hope all Bitcoin projects that enable users to take self custody have taken note, if they are currently using Github, that they can be shut down/out at any time.