If Microsoft buys GitHub will that lead to a mass migration to GitLab?
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Replying to @russel_winder
@rustlang is so tightly coupled with GitHub - source, issues, RFCs, the crates database - I couldn't begin to imagine the amount of work involved in moving. Which is a bit scary, because you're basically trusting GitHub to a) be nice, b) not screw up and c) stay open.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @therealjpster @rustlang
Go made the correct decision to support Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar (now Breezy) as DVCS without recourse to a central resource. Rust of course has http://crates.io that Go has no equivalent. Rust wins that one.
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Replying to @russel_winder @rustlang
Cargo is amazing, but the first thing it does it check out the master crate list from GitHub. I wonder if there's a mechanism to tell it to get it from somewhere else instead, and how you'd push that change out if it came to it.
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Replying to @therealjpster @russel_winder
There is. And, to be clear, it’s only the index. We have no intentions of moving, but if we had to, the bits are already in place.
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Replying to @rustlang @therealjpster
Using GitHUb for the crates index is fine, but only if there is a live backup for Cargo to go to if GitHub is down.
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Replying to @russel_winder @therealjpster
There is, on Heroku.
@integer32llc has instructions on their blog2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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