Re: GitHub reliability

Klemens Morgenstern via Boost <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11 May 2026 02:28, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> > GitHub has become increasingly unreliable. I suggest the Boost project
> > explore alternatives to be ready in case the need to move to a new hosted
> > provider arises. We (the C++ Alliance) are investigating Codeberg.
>
> While I agree that GitHub availability and reliability has been going
> down in recent years, I can't tell whether the alternatives would be an
> improvement, in general or for me personally. I have no experience with
> Codeberg, and I don't know how reliable it is.
>


I assumed an alternative would be self-hosted. I don't think jumping to
another provider is a long-term solution.

github could be the official mirror, which also means that many people will
clone from there, so we could offload some traffic.
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