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> amounting to roughly 5,000 repositories and 3.6 million files now available for download from peer-to-peer networks. It sounds like they host all their depen
by rdtsc 2y ago
> amounting to roughly 5,000 repositories and 3.6 million files now available for download from peer-to-peer networks.
It sounds like they host all their dependencies and just cloned a lot of them to have them under control.
I can’t see the newspaper writing enough code to fill 5000 repositories.
There is a chance they use repositories for data or archives. Then it could make sense I guess.
- gravypod 2y agoIt could be that each article with js charts is a single repo.
- xhkkffbf 2y agoOn some special days, the crossword puzzles even generate a clever, witty animation that goes along with the hidden theme. In other words, an easter egg. They're different enough so I could see that they create a separate repository for each special version of the puzzle.
- rdtsc 2y agoYeah that’s plausible. And the text is hopefully in some nicely indexed store, a proper database, which references the repos.
- skilled 2y agoThat is the case for at least some of the articles. There are also quite a few initialized projects but with nothing inside of them. And the overall file count comes from things like saved email templates that they have sent out, etc. Node modules, and a lot of other garbage files from Terraform, Ansible, etc.