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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by m_sahaf »

Robin_H wrote: post #34
H1Supreme wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gitlab?

Does anyone know an alternative to githost.io? We don't want to use gitlab.org as it's painfully slow but also don't want to manage our own gitlab instance. edit: We don't like the recent changes made in githost. ( Replaced the $35 option with $149 ) We're a team of 15 people. edit2: should have clarified; I'm hooked to GitLab, just looking for another service that does managed hosting. Not looking for GitLab alterna…

Gitea[0] is extremely simple to host, if you want a self-hosted solution that's not as heavy as gitlab.

[0] https://gitea.io

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by hetman »

Everyone is saying: just work on your local repo. But GitHub is way more than just git. There's bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, etc etc.

Making your organisation too dependent on a remote service can indeed be a scary prospect and I'm not sure what GitHub offers to mitigate this.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by Todd »

acchow wrote: post #31

if only we had a decentralized version control system...

Yes, exactly. It's great that we can continue along editing and committing. The freedom that DVCSs bring has really changed the world of development. However, feeling the pain of not being able to access other repos shows both the value that Github brings and also the downside of siloed services.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by avaer »

jonaf wrote: post #37
anonu wrote: post #10

What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...

Your question seems to indicate that you have a runtime dependency on github. If true, this is a problem no matter where your git repo resides. You need to architect a solution wherein you do not have a runtime dependency, especially if it is a single point of failure, or accept that your reliability will never be better than the sum of your services' reli abilities (there was an article on the "calculus of availabil…

Thing is, runtime dependencies on Github is something that Github is promoting and selling now (https://github.com/marketplace/). Maybe this incident puts that value proposition in a more visceral context.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by tuxxy »

hetman wrote: post #57

Everyone is saying: just work on your local repo. But GitHub is way more than just git. There's bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, etc etc. Making your organisation too dependent on a remote service can indeed be a scary prospect and I'm not sure what GitHub offers to mitigate this.

They offer a local instance of GitHub actually.
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