On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 12:24 +1000, George Michaelson wrote: > 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? Do you mean in Russia's autonomous Internet? Lada > > 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. > > -- Ladislav Lhotka Head, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67
