I beieved we had an exclusion from the order, because international standards were understood to be a higher goal. If in fact, the current US administration wants to politicize access to technology facing standards development and exclude nation-states I think we have a bigger problem. Can IETF not find a git backed engine in a Jurisdiction less likely to accede to this (IMNSO ludicrous) decision? Are there no viable sources of reliable, backed up. Gitlabs service hosted in e.g. Geneva, or Dare I say it, Ireland, or perhaps even Russia? On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:21 PM Martin Thomson <mt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 03:07, Dirk Kutscher wrote: > > a non-github git platform that can be self-hosted and that people use productively > > The reasons to use GitHub aren't limited to hosting of git repositories. > > Foremost is the low friction for contributions, which is made possible by having a large, existing community of people with accounts and knowledge of the system. There are also other advantages, like support for continuous integration services. > > This isn't to say that other services aren't useful, and I wouldn't dare suggest that other people can't use those tools, but they are not sufficient for my ends. Even if significant investment of time and money bring another service up to the same level of quality, a community can't be bought in the same way. So, v6 or not, I'll stick with GitHub. >
