Lars Eggert <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2019-7-31, at 5:21, Martin Thomson <mt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > +100 > > As someone said earlier in the thread, of course we can stand up our own instance of pretty much anything based on git. But we'd instantly loose the community already on the public platform. I don't think this is an issue, as long as Github projects are used primarily as development tools by IETF working groups. In fact, with GitLab it should be possible to use the same authentication service as for, e.g. IETF tools website. Lada > > Lars -- Ladislav Lhotka Head, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67
