> there will be name clashes between GitHub projects and BitBucket projects etc. The package manager requires a canonical URL for the git repo. The location of

> there will be name clashes between GitHub projects and BitBucket projects etc. The package manager requires a canonical URL for the git repo. The location of dependencies doesn't matter, for example Github repos with Bitbucket dependencies work fine. The FastLapack packages lived on BitBucket at one point, and then migrated to Github, and that happened without a hitch to upstream packages like LinearSolve.jl or DifferentialEquations.jl. Also, it takes a one line change to General change a package's from Github to BitBucket. It didn't take me more than 2 minutes when I tried. Did you not have a similar experience? Can you show the PR where you gave it a try? Or is your response just speculation? The package server mirrors the repos, so even if these services went down it would not break the dependency chain (developers wouldn't be able to easily update the packages, but the installations and all would still work). So if tomorrow Github decided to make all of the code private for some odd reason, Julia's package server would continue to serve the current versions.