It's easy to see the productivity leak when a centralized service goes down and everyone kvetches on HN or Slack or Reddit about the service
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It's harder to see the productivity leak when every developer burns 30 minutes a week with e.g. gitosis or similar.
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"Problems are not only problems when they are highly visible" and "High visibility does not generally compound impact" are old insights.
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I can't fail to note that nobody ever criticizes git for encouraging SPOFs, which it does. (Come at me, Internets.)
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Patrick, I'm wondering if you actually worked during the age of SVN/CVS. When github/etc is down, I can't get a PR reviewed [1/]
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Maybe I can't update to the latest master. If SVN went down I can't use version control. Git hasn't solved everything, but it helps. [2/]
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CVS, too, although I try not to think about it.
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