On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost
If we "require" git, note that we'll be strapping ourselves to git for a very long times. Good or Bad it should be considered. If that's good, we might just deemphasize distribution via zip file and just encourage people to clone the git repository. For me this is a convenient way to work.
But what about when boost outlives git - as it has a host of other projects, services (like sourceforge)
I think when you say git you mean GitHub (since issues are a GitHub feature not a git feature). GitHub has an API allowing you to extract all the issues, so if Boost does outlive GitHub then there is a path for migrating all of the data by extracting it first: https://developer.github.com/v3/