On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:19:22 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > Yes, it would be a pain to switch away from github at this point, but if > github went down permanently tomorrow, it would just be an annoying > roadblock. We almost certainly wouldn't lose any code (at most, a few > commits, if no one pulled recently enough), and we wouldn't lose any bug > reports. We'd have to go to the trouble of setting up our own gitlab or > switching to bitbucket or something like that and pointing all of the > automated stuff to the new place, and it would be a royal pain, but we > wouldn't lose any information. If all of the issues were on github, and > github went away, we'd lose them. > > Sure, github is unlikely to go away, but I see no reason to tie > ourselves to it thoroughly enough that we're going to lose data if they > go away - especially since I don't actually see any benefit in switching > to github issues.
If only one person has access to Bugzilla, we're actually at a greater risk now than if we used Github for issues. If we don't have regular backups to a location accessible to multiple members of the core team, we shouldn't consider Bugzilla to be a reliable data repository. --Ryan
