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Re: GitHub was down

#101

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

We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.

I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab Enterprise Edition should scale fine to 100,000's of users. Are you in touch with our support about this?

Re: GitHub was down

#104
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> 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,

> if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet.

Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before they added all the insanely cool features they have now, when they were just a Github opensource copycat. My thought at the time was : "wow, github is super cool to let them go. At least the almost exact design copy could be a legal problem". Clearly, we would have heard about Github vs Gitlab back then, if Github wanted to lock people in.

Re: GitHub was down

#105
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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.

At GitLab.com we're not seeing an increase in usage: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-...

From http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh...

But of course it is hard to mirror your repo to GitLab.com when GitHub.com is down, so maybe other sites are a better measure.

Re: GitHub was down

#106

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

We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.

Sorry to hear you're having trouble scaling GitLab. We have many organizations running GitLab and successfully scaling to 10's of thousands of users, and GitLab.com which is the largest GitLab installation. As a GitLab Enterprise customer our support team is happy to help you review your scaling problems and resolve them. Please submit a support request at https://support.gitlab.com.

Re: GitHub was down

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post #105
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.

At GitLab.com we're not seeing an increase in usage: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-... From http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... But of course it is hard to mirror your repo to GitLab.com when GitHub.com is down, so maybe other sites are a better measure.

That's our chart of backend sessions / sec for GitLab.com [1]. There's also a chart for frontend sessions [2], please keep in mind that there's a lot of CI / bot sessions on these dashboards. In addition to that there's much other interesting info on our HAProxy Grafana dashboard [3]. In case anyone's interested in even more metrics, there's a bunch of interesting dashboards on our Grafana instance [4].

[1] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh...

[2] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh...

[3] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats

[4] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/?orgId=1

Re: GitHub was down

#108
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 keep meaning to dig into Fossil (SQLite's VCS/Project Management system), but I have no faith I could convince a team to use it.

Another model to look at is Trac, which had pretty extensive integration with SVN and integrated (ie, cross-linked) issue tracking and wiki, and stored all the data and change history in a svn repository.

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