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chrisseaton wrote: post #7

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

You can still work with your colleagues by pushing and pulling your own repos without involving GitHub. I think centralised CI is the real problem. I don't have the compute power in my home to run our full test suite, so I can't push with confidence without my CI cluster.

Issues and other GH infrastructure is arguably a bigger problem. That metadata is locked within the Github silo with no easy way to export it elsewhere.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by leeoniya » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:23 PM UTC

this PSA is quite unnecessary when a problem is universally known and maximally severe.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by sdruskat » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

If all goes belly up there is always Software Heritage (https://www.softwareheritage.org/).

Re: GitHub down

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Post by vuldin » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

The issue is that the features we use along with git, many of which github provides, are not decentralized. The true but tired argument that git will continue to work when github goes down totally ignores this issue.

Yes, git still works. But we don't just rely on the features git provides.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by d4nyll » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

GitHub just wants to show off their Unicorn artwork.

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Post by curry_maker » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

Now we should start a "Developer-0" kind of thing.... the guy who screw up that shit deserves a second chance... maybe a promotion...

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Post by pselbert » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

Just recently I thought to myself "it has been a long time since I saw the Github Unicorn". As it turns out, I didn't really miss it at all.

Regarding the centralized nature of Github: it is the centralized communication that is a problem, not the ability to share code. I can easily send a patch to somebody on my team, but that doesn't help me review a PR, reply to comments, trigger a CI build, or initiate a deploy.

Code sharing is only a small part of what a team relies on Github for.