I wonder if developers have realised already how unreliable GitHub has been since Microsoft acquired them. I expect them to have an incident every month. Just look at their greatest recent hits: here [0] and [1]
It's no wonder why going all in on Github makes absolutely no sense. Like I said years ago, it is better to just self-host or mirror your repository to GitHub.
Blender surely did choose wisely [2] and perhaps this is the time to self-host your repositories and not 'centralize everything to GitHub' [3]
[0] https://www.githubstatus.com/history
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32752965