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[Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 AT gmail.com>]

Jonah Aragon wrote:
> The reason I said GitHub specifically in the proposal is because we as 
> an organization have an official GitHub account 
> at https://github.com/opennic where things like the homepage and wiki 
> backups are currently hosted. That is the location we will be hosting 
> the automatic backups if this proposal is passed, and that repository 
> (yet to be created) will be recognized as officially operated by the 
> OpenNIC organization.
>
> Of course people are free to clone it or create their own backups, 
> it’s all public data, just “AXFR" the zone. But community mirrors 
> won’t be recognized as “official” within the scope of this proposal.

Git was designed to avoid a single point of failure, and having multiple 
*official* mirrors, with a list on the OpenNIC website, allow us to take 
advantage of that.

In other words, I argue that the OpenNIC organization should officially 
operate more than just one Git repository.  The same commits can be 
pushed to all of the official repositories.

-- Jacob

> > On Jul 13, 2018, at 11:31 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com 
> > <mailto:danq AT runbox.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Even better.
> >
> > --
> >
> > -Dan Q
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:21:52 -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer 
> > <jcb62281 AT gmail.com <mailto:jcb62281 AT gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > > > While I can't say anything about the specifics of this, as I don't 
> > > > run any TLDs, you might want to take into account the current 
> > > > volatile nature of Github, by specifically stating that members can 
> > > > vote to move things to other sites in the event of a problem. We 
> > > > shouldn't try and predict the finances and (mis)management of 
> > > > Github, but instead change these proposals to specifically state 
> > > > that members can vote to move hosting to other places.
> > >
> > > Git was designed for repositories to be widely mirrored, so I suggest
> > > replacing "GitHub" with "public Git hosting services" and keeping a 
> > > list
> > > of multiple official OpenNIC Git mirrors.
> > >
> > > Also, there should be a procedure for returning archived TLDs to active
> > > status if an operator steps forward.
> > >
> > > -- Jacob <mailto:discuss-unsubscribe AT lists.opennicproject.org>