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If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…

The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github.

I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.

Fossil SCM

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...

Yep, that was the one.

There's also plenty of DIY distributed issue tracker tools to keep issue tracking inside a git repo (often as yaml+markdown). I'm still surprised a good one hasn't stepped up with direct GitHub issue/project tool integration+sync, but that should certainly be a possibility.

the linux kernel development works just fine w/o github.

They use self-hosted git repo and bugzilla.

It's not exactly less of a point of failure.

I think the spf there is Linus' email account, right?

The VCS is decentralized but they made the process centralized.

but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?

The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.

We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.

I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab Enterprise Edition should scale fine to 100,000's of users. Are you in touch with our support about this?

Sorry to hear you're having trouble scaling GitLab. We have many organizations running GitLab and successfully scaling to 10's of thousands of users, and GitLab.com which is the largest GitLab installation. As a GitLab Enterprise customer our support team is happy to help you review your scaling problems and resolve them. Please submit a support request at https://support.gitlab.com.

O crap I meant to say GitHUB Enterprise. That's what has trouble. We also have Gitlab Enterprise and that's fine. Sadly for reasons internal we are mostly stuck with GitHub E.

I'm glad to hear that GitLab is working fine for you. And I'm sorry that you feel stuck with GitHub Enterprise. Please know that GitLab has a high fidelity importer https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_project... and our support team has a lot of experience with assisting people with the migration if the migration is the problem.

thats why i asked what his favorite was. just curious to see what the feature differences would be

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