We only delete accounts if they are unused (not just inactive) and someone
is asking to use the username, or in cases of abuse (spam, using repos to
share your MP3 collection, etc). If you push up a bunch of OS repos and
then never come back, we're not going to delete your account or repos.
We obviously have no plans of going out of business, but noone ever plans on
that. If something were to happen, we would give users warning and ample
time to pull clones of their repos. The beauty of git, however, is that
everyone with a clone or a fork has a backup of the repo. As _why's recent
actions have shown, if your project is popular people will have forks.
Deleting the "blessed" repo won't cause the project to die, unless of
course no one was using it anyway.
Tekkub
GitHub Tech Support
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:39 AM, trans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi--
>
> I was wondering if there is an official policy toward open source
> projects?
>
> Having brought a number of my open source projects over to GitHub, it
> has occurred to me that I'd be wise to inquire whether or not my code
> will be safe should something happen to me, or should something happen
> to GitHub. I would hate to think after "90 days" of my absence, all my
> repos would be deleted, or conversely, if one day GitHub found it's
> self financially unable to continue, that it would pull a Stikipad.*
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> * Both of which have happened to me, the first was a Yahoo! email
> account, and the 2nd, a Meta-Programming with Ruby book I was working
> on.
>
> >
>
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