[Arnt]

Github has had stunning stability. I bet their architecture is nontrivial, that dozens of parts of their code are tied intricately to their architecture, and that opensourcing only the bits that will run on typical AMIs or on debian^Wdevuan would be little more than opensourcing helloworld.rb.

[tbrock]

Right and I don’t want to discount that. The scale they’ve achieved and the team that delivered it are incredible but presumably the people who want it to be open source won’t need any of that.

They’ll be running it on a raspberry pi, not hosting the Rails or NodeJS repo.

[simula67]

> Github has had stunning stability

Has it really ? I remember many threads here on complaining about Github's up time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808496

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14893441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775

[KaiserPro]

compared to gitlab, its a paragon of stability

[daxelrod]

You can already get GitHub in an AMI; it’s called GitHub Enterprise.

[Arnt]

Complete with all the features in today's github.com? Including load balancing, sharding, DDOS protection etc.?