Today morning, I was building an AMD SEV virtual machine from source. It requires TianoCore/edk2, “the reference implementation of UEFI by Intel”. While the build script cloned SubhookLib/subhook, I was asked for a Github username and password: This set off alarm bells. After a quick search through the issues in AMD SEV’s repository leading to no result, I decided to go through edk2’s code. In particular, the .gitmodules file: ... [submodule "

Tl;Dr: Zeex/subhook, an 800+ star repository, went offline. A few big repositories depend on it as a submodule.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    19 hours ago

    Honestly, 800 stars isn’t a huge impact anymore on its own. I think the age of the repo and frequency of updates matters more. If there is a fork that is more active, people will switch to it.