On 7/31/19 2:44 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
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.
Lars
By that logic, IETF should move all of its discussions to Facebook.
IMO it is dangerous for IETF to be dependent on an externally-run
platform that is subject to change at a whim.
(actually s/IETF/Internet/)
Keith
