On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 9:41 PM ludwig jaffe ludwig.jaffe@gmail.com wrote:
So if github will be shut down or unreachable we will deploy gitlab or something similar on different machines in the world. The advantage of git: I one cloned the repo the bug is out an the one can judt open a new git server and git is open source. If you believe in moon Nazis, they also can host git if they exist and have the means. So nothing to worry about.
this is what most people believe. the issue is not "worry", it's "time" and "convenience". git is *not* an issue tracker, or a mailing list, or an IRC channel, or a mumble session, or a project management / coordination replacement.
also, git is *not* distributed, it's *replicable*. you have to take *manual action* to "distribute" it. this is a quirk / ambiguity in the english language regarding the word "distributed".
Open source is free as in freedom and git has no central entity that can be blocked to block the project. Gitlab is an open source replacemen with webbrowser support and looks a bit different.
the moment that you set up a website it becomes (a) a pain in the ass to maintain (b) a centralised single point of failure.
i wrote about what a truly distributed project management "suite" using *properly* distributed git tools would look like, as far back as 2008.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14448834&cid=58995278
l.