[_zywo]

Whether this specific problem is intentional or not, these kinds of problems show the issue with using a single centralized service for distribution of third-party dependencies. But it's just so much more darned convenient than hosting your own Git server! It would be super cool if there was a decentralized alternative to GitHub, that used Git under the hood. Perhaps one would upload their repositories to a node, which would then be synchronized with all other nodes, and all you would need to do to use it is to specify any_node.com/author/project. This would keep GitHub's discoverability, while allowing all the benefits of decentralization.

[jrochkind1]

Do many packaging systems do something different than a single centralized download point?

I think rubygems has a single centralized download point.

I am not very familiar with other platforms, including OS distro packages. Do some of them use decentralized systems?

[mfashby]

Some software like gitea [1] can mirror github repositories (or vice versa). Some other software like fossil [2] is designed to do not just source code but also issue tracking etc. in a decentralised fashion.

It's definitely more work than just throwing it onto GitHub though, something more convenient would be really cool.

[1] https://gitea.io/ [2] https://fossil-scm.org/

[adeelk93]

Breaking changes aren’t only an issue with centralization. A breaking change with git itself would mess up your decentralized scenario as well.

[TobTobXX]

Maybe for one or two minutes, but if it costs more time, I'd just rollback my git installation.

Good Luck rolling back GitHub.

[adeelk93]

But what about rolling back someone else’s installation? What if you’re depending on a different user that has a buggy installation?

[viccuad]

I would love to see a Git+Matrix forge, completely decentralised. With the spaces and the upcoming threads, seems like it wouldn't be so difficult to create a client that exposes that. It would be easier to make it closer to Gerrit than Github review process, which would be a step up!

[nshntarora]

Gitlab is uniquely positioned to do this

Activity Pub integration issue on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21582

[practice9]

Radicle is trying to build something similar to what you described https://radicle.xyz/

Discoverability will probably need more work though

[bityard]

Do you need to buy ethereum to push a commit?

[pornel]

I’m amused that the whole open source community depends on what is effectively Microsoft’s closed-source proprietary service.