Decentralization of _why's Projects

#1

Post by berrow » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 3:30 PM UTC

Decentralization of _why's Projects
whymirror.github.com

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

#2

Post by capablanca » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 5:16 PM UTC

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by jherdman » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 5:29 PM UTC

capablanca wrote: post #2

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

Not really. A Git repo isn't really beholden to any other repo. Some are considered definitive, but truly they can all stand on equal footing.

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by Bjoern » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 5:42 PM UTC

capablanca wrote: post #2

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by subbu » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 5:59 PM UTC

He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by ivanstojic » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 6:48 PM UTC

subbu wrote: post #5

He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

It is indubitable that people should be judged by the totality of their actions, yet it is rarely so. I think at least some communities judge _why by the way he exited stage right in the middle of the play.

(Full disclosure: I don't like him)

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by idlewords » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 6:51 PM UTC

subbu wrote: post #5

He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

That's not necessarily a good sign

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by swombat » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 7:19 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #7

subbu wrote: post #5

He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

That's not necessarily a good sign

Those are mostly successful open source projects. I'm not sure how you can count that as a "bad sign".

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by capablanca » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 7:43 PM UTC

Bjoern wrote: post #4

capablanca wrote: post #2

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

Re: Decentralization of _why's Projects

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Post by bk » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 8:15 PM UTC

capablanca wrote: post #9

Bjoern wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

It would be cool if people's self-hosted public repos could be crawled and indexed to create a repo search engine.