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[Neia Neutuladh]

On Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 22:00:31 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 19:25:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> With the NNTP, git, and bugzilla, we all have backups under 
>> our control.
>
> I just don't see why it is a concern[1]:
>
> "So we set out to look for a new home for our data dumps, and 
> today we’re happy to announce that the Internet Archive has 
> agreed to host them:
> The Stack Exchange Data Dump at the Internet Archive[2]"
>
> 1. : 
> https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/01/23/stack-exchange-cc-data-now-hosted-by-the-internet-archive/
> 2. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

The dlang bugzilla and forum are both hosted on dlang-specific 
servers. If they go down, it's easy to get a replica and get back 
up and running in a few hours. Same with the wiki.

If github went down or banned the dlang org, we'd lose 
in-progress pull requests and the history of pull request 
comments. Aside from that, we would be up and running on gitlab 
or what have you in hours.

If Stack Overflow went down, we'd have to find an alternative, 
and then we'd have to figure out how to import that data. That 
could take weeks. And it will happen eventually.