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Re: GitHub was down

#51
post #27

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

Its not like your editor is down.

> implying developers spend most of their time in editors.

Re: GitHub was down

#52
post #48
post #13

Githubs uptime is pretty bad. Isn't it under 95% for the year now?

The stat you refer to is for the day only. Status page shows 99.5159% for the past month, I'd guess it would be in that range for the year aswell.

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Re: GitHub was down

#53
post #46

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My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.

If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…

but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?

Re: GitHub was down

#54
post #27

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

> bored developers

Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work!

But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.

Re: GitHub was down

#55
post #46

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My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.

If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…

The VCS is decentralized but they made the process centralized.

Re: GitHub was down

#57
post #27

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

Its not like your editor is down.

I wouldn't be surprised if this became an issue in the future, with Atom's popularity on the rise…

Re: GitHub was down

#58
post #46

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My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.

If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…

The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github.

I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.

Re: GitHub was down

#59
post #27

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

> bored developers Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work! But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.

> have to be fully reliant on one service

My inner cynic says that that's probably the reason why they don't provide this service.

Re: GitHub was down

#60

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All software depending on Github repo releases downloads are down, e.g: Rancher CLI.

Release downloads are affected?

yep, my Circle-CI deploy fails, the following URL is not available: https://github.com/rancher/cli/releases/download/v0.6.0/ranc...
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