I'm looking forward to the postmortem—GitHub usually does an excellent job with those.
I'm looking forward to the post looking forward to the postmortem - HN usually does an excellent job with those.
GitHub was down
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Re: GitHub was down
#72Yeah, I noticed.
Saw that Syncthing had an update for the desktop-version and wanted to check that the Android-client was on roughly the same version number, so that the protocols wouldn't be incompatible.
And because GitHub was down, I couldn't check the changelog, meaning that I had to go to such crazy measures as opening the Syncthing-app to check what protocol-version it displayed, which turned out to be a hundred times quicker than rustling through some changelog, but uh, something something, ramble ramble.
Re: GitHub was down
#73Re: GitHub was down
#74We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.
Why not using google for authentication? Seems like github is down relatively often.
Google oauth goes down as well, one of the last ones was even discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526775
Re: GitHub was down
#75I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).
We're only more reliable when self hosting. GitLab.com is growing very fast and we have availability and speed problems. But I love the 'for now'. We're working to improve .com and we'll keep launching awesome features every month.
That's refreshingly open and honest, thanks!
Re: GitHub was down
#76Has anyone got a good Github backup script that's actually robust? Something that will reliably go through all your company private repos and clone the lot. I've found a few, but they're all clunky and in serious need of adaptation. (e.g. https://gist.github.com/rodw/3073987 which is the best I've found so far.)
Hard part appears to be finding one that does an organisation account well, not just a user.
What are other people here actually using?
Re: GitHub was down
#77We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.
This isn't an argument against third-party account management. It's an argument against single points of failure. You can (and many websites which do) support multiple auth providers such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub etc. If you bind your account to multiple of these providers, you can mitigate this risk to a large extent.
Even with that setup, people normally don't bother to associate more than one set of credentials with their account. So you would have to institute a more-than-one credential practice.
Re: GitHub was down
#78Github was good while it lasted. Back to SourceForge.
Then if SF goes down we'll go back to emails & patches. Issues will be tracked with post-its & todo lists and communicated by voice.
It's not fossil-scm, but git-appraise restores some of the lost distributed'ness:
https://github.com/google/git-appraise
https://github.com/google/git-appraise-web
https://github.com/Nemo157/git-appraise-rs
And there's also http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/ (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/).
Re: GitHub was down
#79Are there companies out there that include Github as a critical part of their infrastructure such that if the web front end or GIT hosting goes down that their production servers are affected? I'm sure there are but how many people would actually have been affected by this specific outage which only seemed to affect the web front end?
I've been planning to do a static company page, deployed as a GH organisation page. Maybe I should have a fail over plan that can run off of S3 or something, and a short TTL on the DNS records...
Re: GitHub was down
#80my blog is hosting on github pages.