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Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by Tecuane »

platinium wrote: post #30

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning. What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left? I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

> Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there.

This strikes me as odd. May I ask why usage of GCP is a deal-breaker for you? While I can understand not wanting to use Google products directly as a consumer, I believe it would be - for lack of a better term - platform suicide for Google to intercept and perform its usual analytical shenanigans on the data content of transmissions to/from their platform.

Either way, Phacility's Phabricator[1] is $20/user/mo.

1. https://www.phacility.com/pricing/

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by Fuzzwah »

keyle wrote: post #20

I don't know if they keep changing the text updates with a slightly different version to - prove it's a human that typed it - there is code the prevents repeating twice the same message either way it's entertaining... But it's Monday morning in Australia and we need to release! (yep we do this via pr/tagging etc.)

It is to ensure that the updates get mirrored onto twitter, where exact duplicates can't be posted.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by diegoperini »

rphillips wrote: post #8
karaokeyoga wrote: post #4

Is it just me or is that status message wonky? Failing over something to restore access?

Sounds like an engineer knee deep in diagnosing the issue.

That person needs our support more than anyone else right now.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by naner »

platinium wrote: post #30

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning. What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left? I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

This type of thing will always be a risk with cloud infrastrucure no matter what service you choose.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by ComputerGuru »

I can't add comments to pull requests("you can't do that right now") and any commits pushed to branches are not updating updating the visible status in the web interface, no are newly created branches showing up. However, if you navigate to a new commit directly with its SHA (so you can share it with someone if you really want), it'll show up (so they're just not being indexed).

EDIT:

Obligatory "that's what happens when the whole world relies on a centralized git repo" and a reference to gitea, which has a very slick github-esque UI and is incredibly easy and light to deploy/run (on an existing server, your own PC, a raspberry pi, a docker vm, or whatever): https://gitea.io/en-us/

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by pinneycolton »

karaokeyoga wrote: post #7
karaokeyoga wrote: post #4

Is it just me or is that status message wonky? Failing over something to restore access?

failing -> migrating

Well, they've got the "failing" part right. It's the "over" that's taking a while ;)
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