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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by happyslobro »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #32
typpytyper wrote: post #16

Github 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.

I am sorely tempted to just start tracking issues as YML or CSV + markdown files in an issues directory. That gets me all kinds of features that GH doesn't provide:

- offline issue management (bugs on a plane)

- issues associated with branches

- grep, awk, ack, sed

- all of the above, available to git hook scripts

The only thing he holding me back, is that I really want to get this right. This needs to become a standard, not "Dan's weird repo that no one understands".

Re: GitHub was down

#83

Post by 0xmohit »

davidgerard wrote: post #76

Has 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 othe…

You could try github-backup [0]. Quoting from the description:

  It backs up everything GitHub publishes about the repository,
  including branches, tags, other forks, issues, comments, wikis,
  milestones, pull requests, watchers, and stars.
And did I mention that it's written in Haskell!

[0] https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup

Re: GitHub was down

#84

Post by roblabla »

bdcravens wrote: post #13
jclulow wrote: post #7

We 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.

Every time a service like Github goes down, I always swear to myself I'll replace that dependency with a project that takes days, weeks, or months to implement will ensure I'll never have hours or minutes of downtime ever again.

I run a gogs[0] instance, which is a GitHub clone with great performance characteristics. I use it for both company and personal projects, and we haven't had any downtime. No more productivity drop when github is down :D.

I recently discovered another huge dependency I have when coding though : StackOverflow. That's going to be a lot harder to replace though...

[0]: https://github.com/gogits/gogs

PS: Yes, I realize the irony in using a github link here...

Re: GitHub was down

#85

Post by dmitry-k »

roblabla wrote: post #84
bdcravens wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time a service like Github goes down, I always swear to myself I'll replace that dependency with a project that takes days, weeks, or months to implement will ensure I'll never have hours or minutes of downtime ever again.

I run a gogs[0] instance, which is a GitHub clone with great performance characteristics. I use it for both company and personal projects, and we haven't had any downtime. No more productivity drop when github is down :D. I recently discovered another huge dependency I have when coding though : StackOverflow. That's going to be a lot harder to replace though... [0]: https://github.com/gogits/gogs PS: Yes, I realize t…

>No more productivity drop when github is down

It could have been the motto of RhodeCode (https://rhodecode.com). Self-hosted repository management not only has a benefit of having one's uptime under control, but also is much more secure.

Re: GitHub was down

#86

Post by Kudos »

morgante wrote: post #62
hueving wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least when it's self-hosted, it's your responsibility and you can fix it. When you are anything larger than a tiny company, this is much less risky. Remember that 'the cloud' just means 'someone else's computers' so you are subject to their infrastructure management practices and uptime guarantees (or lack thereof).

Even for a company much larger than tiny, you're better off with GitHub from a reliability perspective. Most medium companies (up to hundreds of employees) do not have operations staff anywhere near as responsive as GitHub's are. Look at their status history. The vast majority of companies could not boast such a record for their internal operations.

Not to mention if it's one person who decided to set up the self-hosted solution and then that person leaves. How reliable is it then?

Re: GitHub was down

#88

Post by akerro »

rootlocus wrote: post #43
isuckatcoding wrote: post #28

I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).

What makes you think GitLab won't have any downtimes?

GitLab is down for 2minutes per month. GitHub is down second time today for more than 20minutes... can you hear the software and builds breaking? ouch
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