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[Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net>]

That being said... if community members set up their own publicly
accessible automatic Git mirrors of our entire GitHub organization at
https://github.com/opennic, and send me links, I can throw together a
list and put them on the homepage. I'm planning an entire "community
showcase/projects" section anyways.

Jonah
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 6:58 PM Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:
>
> I've already discussed this with some people, I even offered to host a
> Git host myself, and nobody is really interested in moving to another
> Git host or creating multiple places for us to manage. GitHub is
> working fine for us, and the nature of Git means that if GitHub ever
> fails we can easily migrate to another host without their help. It's
> really not an issue that we don't have multiple hosts setup
> simultaneously. People are welcome to clone all our repositories and
> store them on their own computers for safekeeping if they so choose.
>
> Also, the zone backups are now online, I just put them up at
> https://github.com/opennic/zone-backup
>
> Jonah
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 4:06 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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>
> >
> >
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