On 6/7/2018 10:01 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
And that is why it's a bad thing to build a walled garden around a code repo, esp. when the underlying VCS is well capable of distributed development. If only there has been a standard protocol for communicating such associated content, such as PR comments and discussions, bugs and issues (this latter not applicable in our case, thankfully), then we could have setup an archival system to retrieve and store all of this information. Unfortunately, AFAIK there isn't a way to do this, and so if Github for whatever reason shuts down, all of this valuable information would be lost forever.
Since I have (most) of the Github discussions in email form, I could do something like this if we had to:
https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html There's a program that runs over the NNTP database to generate the static pages: https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver
