GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Brad Roberts]

On 6/8/2018 2:34 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 6/7/2018 10:01 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> And that is why it's a bad thing to build a walled garden around a code
>> repo, esp. when the underlying VCS is well capable of distributed
>> development.  If only there has been a standard protocol for
>> communicating such associated content, such as PR comments and
>> discussions, bugs and issues (this latter not applicable in our case,
>> thankfully), then we could have setup an archival system to retrieve and
>> store all of this information.  Unfortunately, AFAIK there isn't a way
>> to do this, and so if Github for whatever reason shuts down, all of this
>> valuable information would be lost forever.
> 
> Since I have (most) of the Github discussions in email form, I could do 
> something like this if we had to:
> 
> https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html
> 
> There's a program that runs over the NNTP database to generate the 
> static pages:
> 
> https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver

Essentially (if not actually) everything on github is available through 
their api's.  No need for scraping or other heroics to gather it.