2017-04-06 11:53 GMT+02:00 Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>:


In all, I have come to depend on github, critically because
> organizations I am involved in would be severely impacted when we
> moved elsewhere. Even for GNU Guix - which pointedly does not use
> github - would be severely hampered if something happened to
> github. So many projects are hosted on github that distribution and
> deployment of free software would be severely broken if github went
> down. In other words we have built a monster.
>

[...]



> Also
> software releases distributed by github should be mirrored elsewhere.
> GNU Guix, for example, should mirror and fully archive the source
> tarballs that github provides.
>

A side note: If and when Guix will have GNUnet, it could use it to
distribute non only binaries but also tarballs