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<body><div>On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 12:46, Michael Van Delft wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I love the idea of a github-on-bittorrent protocol though, that seems far more decentralized to me.<br></div>
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<div>This is essentially just about storing issues and wiki in a DVCS, right?<br></div>
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<div>There have been several attempts at this[0], most of which seem dead. I doubt that it's hard to do from a technical standpoint, but there are reasons issue tracking etc is often centralised:<br></div>
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<div> - it's a place for discussion, which is hard to follow if not everyone gets the same thing at the same time<br></div>
<div> => this is solved by some kind of always-on updater over a P2P network<br></div>
<div> => I'd consider this more akin to blockchain than bittorrent, but either way<br></div>
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<div> - issues sometimes need to have a limited audience<br></div>
<div> => this isn't actually that hard to do, probably<br></div>
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<div>- you don't necessarily want to pull down a <br></div>
<div> => this can be solved by something on the project home page</div>
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<div>A very interesting thought, in any case.<br></div>
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<div>Michael<br></div>
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<div>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/npryce/deft/wiki/Other-Distributed-Issue-Trackers">https://github.com/npryce/deft/wiki/Other-Distributed-Issue-Trackers</a>; <a href="http://veracity-scm.com/">http://veracity-scm.com/</a>; <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki">http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</a>; <a href="http://ditz.rubyforge.org/">http://ditz.rubyforge.org/</a>; <a href="https://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2014/04/29/847-crazy-idea-decentralised-bug-tracker">https://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2014/04/29/847-crazy-idea-decentralised-bug-tracker</a><br></div>
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