On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:18:24AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting KatolaZ (katolaz@???):
>
> > I got a pm reply from Gottox, who said that their main problem at the
> > moment seems to be re-acquiring access to the github account that
> > contains all the packages.
>
> Maybe, the first step should be to learn the lesson 'Don't outsource
> your development architecture to a proprietary sofware company that may
> for reasons of its own become a problem to you.'
>
> There are fully reasonable self-hosted, open source GitHub workalikes,
> such as GitLab. Maybe VoidLinux should be setting one up and developing
> its own VCS and packaging architecture.

This wouldn't have helped. A piece of infrastructure that's run by a person
who gets run over the bus, or throws a tantrum, is inaccessible just the
same as when hosted on GitHub.

You need redundancy. Anyone can go missing with no warning. Heck, I myself
got hauled in an ambulance from an airport mere three weeks ago, despite
being 100% ok a short while before. Your disk can go bad, that's why you
have RAID and backups. Your DNS server can go bad, that's why you have two
authoritatives. The person holding your domain contact can go down just the
same.


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