This year, the Bitcoin Core project will have its 13th anniversary being hosted on GitHub. 13 years of issues and pull requests with critical design decisions and nuanced discussions hosted with a US-based company known for shutting down open-source software repositories when needing to follow DMCA and OFAC requests. While the medium-to-longterm plan is to move off of GitHub, I’ve written a tool for incremental GitHub metadata backups as a short-to-medium-term alternative.
