[rescue] Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever? WAS:::Re: What to do with the SS20

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 07:31:47PM -0400, Andrew Hoerter wrote:
[...]
> In the abstract, I don't know of anything that Github does which couldn't
> have been implemented in a peer-to-peer fashion without reliance on a
> centralized service, with some tradeoffs.

git *is* peer-to-peer. Github is just yet another peer, but which happens to
have much better connectivity and higher availability than the typical
developer workstation. So it serves as a handy store-and-forward service.