Thank you for that word of reason. (In addition to your very well stated point, the whole point of Git is that it is a *distributed* RCS. I don’t think, anything less than a full scale planetary nuclear war could really wipe out the GHC source code at this point.)
Manuel > 20.12.2017 05:02 Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com>: > >> You're also assuming github doesn't suddenly pull a SourceForge (or a >> Gitorious for that matter). Business cares not what it steamrolls in the >> name of profit. >> >> I fail to understand why, with multiple examples of the folly of this >> belief out there, people are still willing to bet on *this* company being >> *different* from all others and absolutely safe to trust. > > What the heck is everyone arguing over? The initial statement was that > even if we moved everything to github "We'd need mirroring anyway". > That's it! There's no either/or involved. Just a statement that when > you have data in one location, no matter how trustworthy, you want a > backup as well. And ideally you want the backup under your control. > > We can debate moving anything anywhere all we want, but the idea that > stuff should also be backed up, regardless, in a source not under > third-party control, seems inoffensive and besides the point. > > --Gershom > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs