When GitHub Went Dark: How OWASP BLT Found a New Home

说明与用途

OWASP BLT 在 GitHub 故障期间失去了 50+ 个仓库的访问权限，导致开发停滞。团队迁移到 GitLab，然后将所有项目合并到自托管的 ForkMesh 仓库中，保留了历史和贡献者。GitHub 现在仅作为只读镜像。

问题

OWASP BLT lost access to 50+ GitHub repositories during a GitHub outage, halting development during Google Summer of Code.

结果

OWASP BLT successfully restored development by migrating to GitLab, then consolidating into a single ForkMesh repository, preserving all history and contributors, and establishing GitHub as a read‑only mirror.

工作流

• Applied organization‑wide GitHub ruleset for security hygiene
• GitHub outage occurred and repositories went offline
• Contacted GitHub support with no clear explanation
• Migrated code to GitLab to resume development
• Consolidated all projects into one repository on ForkMesh
• Set up ForkMesh as source of truth and mirrored to GitHub
• Archived GitLab repositories and migrated open issues/merge requests
• Cleaned up technical debt (e.g., data jobs to Cloudflare storage)

证据

We woke up to find our GitHub repositories offline. All 50+ of them.

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We moved our repositories to GitLab. We pushed the code, redirected contributors to the new location, and worked on getting everything running again.

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We gave ForkMesh a try. And it stuck.

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Our official source of truth is now git.owaspblt.org/BLT, running on ForkMesh.

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