# Possible impacts on Git due to COVID19 2 messages from 2020-04-10 to 2020-04-10. Participants: Coghlan, Owen R CTR USARMY PEO EIS (USA), Elijah Newren. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/53206 ## Coghlan, Owen R CTR USARMY PEO EIS (USA), 2020-04-10 13:54 Subject: Possible impacts on Git due to COVID19 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/FA375405E0773E4095AD3784C67AE52214DA4BC3%40UMECHPA7A.easf.csd.disa.mil ``` Good Morning, My name is Owen Coghlan and I'm the Cyber Security Analyst for Defensive Cyber Operations, Cyber Platforms and Systems, located at Fort Belvoir supporting the Army. Are there any possible impacts or slowdowns due to COVID19? Impacts such as supply chain, coders, and shipping, where your software product is concerned. This information would be greatly appreciated. Owen Coghlan Cyber Security SME 9351 Hall Road, Bldg 1456 Fort Belvoir, VA 703.806.3389 Owen.r.coghlan.ctr@mail.mil ``` ## Elijah Newren, 2020-04-10 17:47 Subject: Re: Possible impacts on Git due to COVID19 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CABPp-BFWnfr0kc3Od4XC2ZmJ94k3p%2BoSmbz2k1%2BGyY%2BS-OVwig%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 7:04 AM Coghlan, Owen R CTR USARMY PEO EIS (USA) wrote: > > Good Morning, > > My name is Owen Coghlan and I'm the Cyber Security Analyst for Defensive Cyber Operations, Cyber Platforms and Systems, located at Fort Belvoir supporting the Army. Are there any possible impacts or slowdowns due to COVID19? Impacts such as supply chain, coders, and shipping, where your software product is concerned. This information would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure what kind of "supply chain or shipping" you are envisioning would even be applicable to git. I'm also not even sure why slowdowns would matter -- you get new features slower? It's also not at all clear whether we have an overall slowdown; not to me at least. Some developers who contribute may have less time to do so (e.g. due to the sudden need to homeschool kids), but others might have more time. While some git developers may have worked in the same company and collaborated in person, overall, git development has always been done electronically and remotely and has contributors from many companies as well as hobbyists. If someone had a reason to be interested in this kind of answer beyond "My gut answer right now is I don't think so", they could try counting patch submissions to the mailing list or the number of new commits entering various branches and compare it to previous release cycles. That information is publically available for all to see, after all. But digging out this information seems like work for someone who feels that documenting the answer provides some kind of utility. If you just want a rough gut estimate, I don't perceive any slowdowns. ```