In light of the recent takedown of the youtube-dl project by Github, can you please give us a quick rundown of the safety procedures that are currently in place to secure the Bitcoin project metadata (issues / PRs / gists / pages) in the event of a Github disaster or takedown:
- are backups performed periodically? what / when / by whom
- are these backups held publicly (where) or only privately (by whom)
- what is the emergency assembly point (is btctalk/chan/bitmessage appropriate)
- who is in charge with leading the recovery effort? who is second-in-charge?
- has a secondary site been selected? pre-configured? is it compatible with existing backups? p2p options?
- is there a recovery plan, and has it been tested?
It's OK to not have answers to all these questions now, and even more OK to try and find the answers that are missing.
Because you don't need to be a weather man to see how the wind is blowing.