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This would have happened identically even if the project had its own hosting, so outsourcing hosting to GitHub isn't a factor in this case.

• monocasa 7y ago
  Lkml doesn't seem to have this problem, and they are the original git users.
  • Macha 7y ago
    So all you need to do is get popular and important enough that several unrelated third parties will mirror and host your communications for you.
    • monocasa 7y ago
      Or... publish everything as essentially a log in an openly accessible manner (ie. email as a on a list serv with it's web accessible archive), and places like archive.org will happily squirrel it away for you.
• tumdum_ 7y ago
  I wouldn't happen if instead of git, they used fossil.
  • mratsim 7y ago
    It seems like the only "Fossilhub" is this: http://chiselapp.com/ http://chiselapp.com/ I would guess that it would make it very hard to create a community around the project.
    • tumdum_ 7y ago
      Fossil has everything built in including fully functioning web interface (in contrast to git).