GitHub Mirror of popular repos?
Hi!
GitHub is owned by Microsoft and hosts the source code for MANY Open Source Projects. If GitHub were to be down, this would be a huge catastrophy to coordinate (even if it was due to innocent causes).
On the one hand it is good to move away from GitHub! But let's be honest, currently GitHub has the biggest share and GitLab is 2nd (I can't find their current official registration country; if I am up to date, they host stuff at Google Cloud).
Is there a european mirroring effort where we could quickly look up popular or medium-popular repositories in case GitHub wasn't available? In https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/ GitHub writes that they archived 21 TB in the Arctic World Archive. They might have different inclusion criteria, still such a size looks very much managable for a organisation or university group (or a hobbyist willing to spend a few grand).
Would be really interesting to find out if there is already some collaborative effort.