Even worse if libraries / packages are only hosted on Github. Then the main ecosystem of a language dependent on those packages can grind to a full stop from there.
I'm looking at all of you CocoaPods, SwiftPM, npm, Cargo, vgo.
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Insanity. Having an emergency mirror on standby is not hard when it's critical infrastructure. Surely npm/Cargo/etc.. could do this.
I think I'll set this up now
https://github.com/local-npm/local-npm
The npm registry itself does not depend on GitHub.
It's true that most developers rely on GitHub for pushing to the registry, but there are a handful that use GitLab or self host that would be totally unaffected.
AdoptOpenJDK builds are hosted there too; found out about the outage trying to download one.