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Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#11

Alright, cue the usual: Monoculture bad Microsoft bad Git is distributed but all the things around it that we really need aren't You can set up git to push to multiple remotes automatically Nobody is actually using git in distributed mode Did I forget anything?

The usual fluff about migrating away to Gitlab?

"We would migrate to Gitlab, but it's currently down"

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#14
post #5
post #4

Justyna yesterday I was complaining about GitHub monoculture in the context of Atlassian sunsetting Mercurial. Outages like this are normal, but the problem is lack of good competitors.

There are quite a decent list of competitors, all of which have similar or sometimes better offerings. There are also plenty of fully free and open source solutions, should you want to do things yourself. The Github monopoly is driven by its users.

I tried gitlab but I hated the web interface. It was lacking in so many departments. Any other alternatives to github to try?

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#15
post #4

Justyna yesterday I was complaining about GitHub monoculture in the context of Atlassian sunsetting Mercurial. Outages like this are normal, but the problem is lack of good competitors.

The problem is bad design and/or integration of components. VMS clusters over leased lines went years without outages. Record was 17 years at a rail yard. They also did rolling upgrades across both different OS versions and CPU architectures . The methods are public if any competitors want to match or exceed them: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na... These modern cloud services using Linux…

Modern apps are designed to deal with part of them being down - it is the core upgrade strategy.

VMS clusters were (and modern equivalents are) awesome, but they have a different speed of innovation / development.

It is a trade off - perfect uptime, but that new feature could take a year, or 99.9% uptime, but it can be written and deployed tomorrow.

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#16

Alright, cue the usual: Monoculture bad Microsoft bad Git is distributed but all the things around it that we really need aren't You can set up git to push to multiple remotes automatically Nobody is actually using git in distributed mode Did I forget anything?

The usual fluff about migrating away to Gitlab?

Irony of ironies. Gitlab's import-from-GitHub functionality has been broken ever since we tried to migrate away. (They're going ot fix it soon.)

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#17
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The usual fluff about migrating away to Gitlab?

"We would migrate to Gitlab, but it's currently down"

Given the context I guess he is talking about the self-hosted version.

See also https://gogs.io/

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#18

Alright, cue the usual: Monoculture bad Microsoft bad Git is distributed but all the things around it that we really need aren't You can set up git to push to multiple remotes automatically Nobody is actually using git in distributed mode Did I forget anything?

The usual fluff about migrating away to Gitlab?

"Just run gitea/gogs in a raspberry pi in the closet, works for me"

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#19
post #13

I see posts like this make the front page of hacker news every so often, but I don't recall seeing posts about things like making list outages for something like the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) or an IRC network like Freenode.

Perhaps because Freenode has about 0.25% the number of users of Github - ~100,000 vs 40 million?

Re: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

#20
I kind of wish HN wouldn't show these outages unless they're going on for multiple hours or at least hide them after they're back up. Usually by the time I see them and then check myself the site is already back up. Maybe I just need to read HN more often.
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