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Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

It would be cool if people's self-hosted public repos could be crawled and indexed to create a repo search engine.

1. It would be cool if... 2. Could it work that... 3. Let's get started!

That is a pretty awesome idea. GitHub/Launchpadish but the actual repositories are hosted externally? Hell yeah. Has someone tried this already?