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Do you have any other suggestions? Hosting these repos on donated/personal machines is (IMO) significantly less likely to stand the test of time. At least with a commercial entity there is a bit more "trust" involved that they won't disappear out of the blue one day. And if the time comes that Github starts to collapse, the process can be repeated. Just because something isn't permanent doesn't mean it's pointless.
> Do you have any other suggestions? Archive.org ? And weird that nobody suggested the Bitcoin block chain. I don't think binaries are a good fit but source code doesn't require a lot of space. With the current and future block size it will take sometime to make it happen.
Archive.org (while an amazing resource created lovingly by amaing people) is not a great front-end for stuff like this. Github is very easy to get started with and excels at code hosting. As for the blockchain that's a terrible idea, there are so many things wrong with it including the cost to push all of that data into the blockchain and the fact that while source code can be small it isn't always and it's magnitudes of times larger. Right now each block is 1MB and blocks take some 10 minutes for just 1 confirmation so you are looking at < 1.7KBpss (13.6Kbps) "upload" speeds. IF you actually attempted this you would have to have some sort of header on each transaction to tie it all together which lowers the speed even further. I'd bet money that if you started uploading nodes would either ban you or the core devs would do something to stop the chain from being filled with shit that now has to get replicated to 10's of thousands of machines across the globe.