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Re: Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted

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post #3

Seems like they have it mostly resolved, the releationships were restored from a backup 3 hours prior to the incident, and they are working to restore the data for the 313 (sic.) items still affected: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/348547

I am curious, how frequently does GitLab backup their DB? 3 hours seems pretty recent

Re: Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted

#8
post #7
post #3

Seems like they have it mostly resolved, the releationships were restored from a backup 3 hours prior to the incident, and they are working to restore the data for the 313 (sic.) items still affected: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/348547

I am curious, how frequently does GitLab backup their DB? 3 hours seems pretty recent

I would expected them to have point-in-time recovery, especially from the last time when they accidentally dropped the production database.

Re: Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted

#9
post #4

I was confused by the title. Apparently epics are a way to organize issues by themes across projects. GitHub doesn't have this concept, in case anyone else was wondering. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/ https://github.community/t/epics-github-issues/1430

That's because github isn't trying to be a replacement for JIRA and source control for most teams.

Re: Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted

#10
post #4

I was confused by the title. Apparently epics are a way to organize issues by themes across projects. GitHub doesn't have this concept, in case anyone else was wondering. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/ https://github.community/t/epics-github-issues/1430

That's because github isn't trying to be a replacement for JIRA and source control for most teams.

their latest updates to their project management features[1] launched as part of the "new" issues are totally going in that direction though.

I'm unsure as to whether that's a good thing or not.

1) https://github.blog/2021-06-23-introducing-new-github-issues...

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