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by kelnos 37 days ago
That's a separate issue of supply-chain risk, and crates.io using GitHub auth isn't really material to that.

The gripe with using GitHub auth for crates.io is that GitHub is owned by a large, fickle corporation with a (shall we say) complicated history with open source, and people object on principled grounds to being forced to use GitHub in order to participate in the crates.io ecosystem.