> Then, industry took that distributed approach and strapped project and team management systems with web based front ends like Github, GitLab, etc. around git

> Then, industry took that distributed approach and strapped project and team management systems with web based front ends like Github, GitLab, etc. around git and created CI/CD pipelines that built ontop of or in parallel to those environments--all of which were centralized. A different view on this is that my CI system is a kind of colleague, responsible for a lot of what testers, ops, and build eng people toiled at before. It is another aspect of the decentralized system where a robot can also check out and work with the code even while humans continue to write more, which is considerably more painful under e.g. the SVN model. My human colleagues and I still share plenty of code directly, via git pulls and other tools.