Preserving the global software heritage

Posted Aug 7, 2016 15:22 UTC (Sun) by mina86 (guest, #68442)
Parent article: Preserving the global software heritage

I wonder how they're planning to cope with projects whose original GitHub repository stopped being maintained and the project is now developed in a “forked” repository. Perhaps the long term solution is to store everything?

Another observation is that people who accidentally pushed their password upstream are now even more screwed. :P Not that in such a case one should immediately change their password anyway.