Looks OK from here (Paris, France).
GitHub issue - resolved
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Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#122Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…
My company uses a self-hosted Gerrit instance. A bit of a learning curve, but the code review experience is SO much better than PRs (one commit == one unit of review, clean intra-diffs between different revisions of a patch, stacking of reviews simply by having multiple commits on a branch, UI is very snappy and responsive...).
Self-hosting Gerrit is easy[1] because all its internal state is fully transactional, including reviews and configs, and is simply stored as normal Git commits inside the Git repos on the filesystem.
In fact, our instance had much better uptime over the past year than GitHub despite being migrated to another server once!
[1]: ... unless you need a complex high availability setup or replicas. But 99% of projects are fine with just a single instance and backups.
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#123Looks like it's back and the status page reports it as green, however GitHub Actions builds are not triggering on push as usual when this happens, so for me it doesn't seem to be fully recovered yet.
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#124Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…
If you're into self hosting, soft-serve is a really cool CLI based git server from Charmbracelet that is about a half step above a bare git repo over SSH
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#125Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…
Gitea[1]. It's a self hosted Github alternative, and it's quite lightweight too.
[1] https://gitea.io
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#126Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…
I have a vps with bare git repos, pushing via ssh. A selection of these has hooks set up to mirror all pushes onto github/gitlab/$platform, but these are write-only.
> I have a vps with bare git repos, pushing via ssh. A selection of these has hooks set up to mirror all pushes onto github/gitlab/$platform, but these are write-only.
I like it, self-hosting bare git repos has been pretty painless for me in the past on LANs. You could still add a hook to encrypt the repo and backup whenever you merge to dev or something as well.
You pretty much only lose the hosted diff/review/ticketing tools which I've never enjoy much regardless.
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#127Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…
I'm migrating from GitHub to CodeCommit. My project has pretty strict security guidelines, and GitHub doesn't have a high enough accreditation. GitHub tries to handwave this by saying good current practice means there's no personally identifiable information, etc. in Git repositories, but I'm not willing to entrust the code behind moderately sensitive infrastructure to a service that thinks they don't need to implement (and more importantly, prove they implement) better security standards and practices.
Recent developments have only reinforced my feelings on this matter.
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#128I wonder if it has anything to do with them updating their RSA SSH host key (https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-k...) 3 days ago.
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#129It’s up now.
Re: GitHub issue - resolved
#130One has to ask oneself... would this have happened without the Microsoft acquisition?
Does anyone have real, contemporary numbers on this? Your observation matches my intuition, and I've seen some stats around the first two years after the acquisition¹, but I don't know any good up-to-date analysis on the question.
My intuition aligns too closely with my known biases here for me to be satisfied with that alone.
1: https://statusgator.com/blog/has-github-been-down-more-since...