Github woes

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Feb 7 08:13:12 PST 2016


On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 10:48:49 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 10:27:02 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On 07/02/16 11:22 PM, Wobbles wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> The only thing that we have hosted on Github is code.
>> So excluding integrations, we could move over to Bitbucket 
>> without too many problems.
>>
>> I really wouldn't worry about it. Sure it would upset and add 
>> a lot of extra work but we sure won't be the only ones in that 
>> position.
>
> Unfortunately, there's a lot of valuable info in the PR 
> comments, that would be lost if github.com went down.  Since D 
> never switched from bugzilla to github for bugs, that wouldn't 
> be an issue.  Hopefully, we could pull that github PR 
> discussion from a backup at archive.org or someplace.

IIRC Gitlab(FOSS, can self-host) is capable of keeping a perfect 
in-sync mirror of all Github data, I'd have to go review if it's 
still capable of this so don't take my word on it.

Bye.


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