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by likeabatterycar 497 days ago
What prevents Wireguard from moving to GitHub or why is bare metal hosting needed?

The code is small and integrated into the kernel at this point.

Aren't your needs primarily for distributing Windows/Mac packages at this point?

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No, it's considerably more involved than that. For example, there's extensive CI: https://www.wireguard.com/build-status/ This thing builds a fresh kernel and boots it for every commit for a bunch of systems. And there's also a lot of long running fuzzing and SAT solving and all sorts of other heavy computation happening during different aspects of development. Development is a bit more than just pushing some code up to Github and hoping for the best.
Thanks for the explanation, I had been under the impression that Wireguard was "done" at this point.