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Re: GitHub was down

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post #53
post #46

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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?

The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.

Re: GitHub was down

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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.

But they want you to Rely on Github... if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet.

Github is not a open source company, it is not really even a supporter of free software IMO they are a danger to free software for this very reason. They are following the old school Microsoft model of Embrace and Extend... I am waiting to see if they can extinguish,

Re: GitHub was down

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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.

I'm of the impression that issues and PRs are all accessible via an API. What more should they do?

Re: GitHub was down

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post #15

How many more can we expect before they develop appreciation for testing _before_ they push to prod?

Newly introduced errors in site code are only one of many sources of failure for a site like GitHub, and probably a fairly rare one.

It's a nearly weekly occurrence. Avoidable one, I might add. When was the last time a major Google service had a major outage?

Re: GitHub was down

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post #58
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Fossil SCM

Re: GitHub was down

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post #58
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...

Re: GitHub was down

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post #37

What was happening to Github for a week or so in late June - early July? I see "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" for a whole week. https://status.github.com/messages/2017-07-03

They seemed to be suffering some external attacks / DDoS but I never saw a post-mortem from them on it, hopefully one is forthcoming (or maybe is out but I missed it)
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