Horizontal organizations challenge: domain names

[dachary]

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If there is no infrastructure as code (which is impossible with GitHub because it would require it to be self-hostable Free Software), it cannot conveniently be moved from one place to another.

Here, the problem seems to have been less with Travis/Github as proprietary systems and more about Github not working for free to untangle the governance of VoidLinux. The project would likely had faced the exact same type of problem with a registrar or a bank by asking “can we take over that domain/account, we have no structure to prove, but we are the good guys™”.

If VoidLinux had infrastructure as code and the only other dependencies were (i) a domain name, (ii) a cloud provider for virtual machines, the problem described in this part of the article would not exist, that was the point I was trying to make. Whatever strategy VoidLinux would have developed over the years to deal with 10,000 repos would have been done in a context that was reproducible since it would have been based on infrastructure as code.