What does HackerNews think of mango?

I remember some years ago when npm was having a lot of stability issues because the guy just was not being given adequate time/resources from Joyent or whatever, I made a post on r/node saying now was the time for a fully decentralized package registry.

The post if I remember was mostly ignored, but received a few downvotes and maybe a couple of negative comments.

Based on that, it seems that what's preventing decentralization from taking off is ignorance and apathy.

A day or two later the guy announced npm, Inc. if I remember.

There are actually a lot more developers that have accepted a federated services worldview than a peer-based fully distributed one. But there are package registry projects along both of those lines.

https://github.com/orbs-network/decentralized-npm

https://blog.aragon.one/using-apm-to-replace-npm-and-other-c...

https://github.com/entropic-dev/entyropic

https://github.com/axic/mango

But again, ignorance, apathy, and the status quo remain the most popular options.

Here is a decentralized and distributed backend for git called Mango. Basically takes advantage of Ethereum and P2P content addressable networks. https://github.com/axic/mango

[Edit]: Here is another using the BitTorrent protocol - https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent

There was a project, mango [0], that was very similar to this. In addition to using IPFS for storage, it used ethereum for things like permissions control. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a while, but perhaps this will bring some attention to it?

[0] - https://github.com/axic/mango

What are your thoughts on this project: https://github.com/axic/mango

Looks like it's abandoned, but it's a start at using ETH and IPFS.

I know this is a joke, but have you checked out mango? https://github.com/axic/mango

It exist! Not a whitepaper, but at least a Medium article: https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-dec.... Ethereum + IPFS/Swarm as backend for Git.

Source code is currently unavailable as it is hosted on ... drum roll ... GitHub: https://github.com/axic/mango.