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Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#11
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Github is becoming too important. A routine backup system is needed, something like archive.org, that backs up important Github projects.

If only there was a decentralized system to allow version management of code.

You'd still need some sort of centralized... hub to communicate and manage things.

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#12
post #5

Github is becoming too important. A routine backup system is needed, something like archive.org, that backs up important Github projects.

That exists on every dev’s machine.

In theory, the code is there, but putting a project back together in a hurry after trouble at Github is non-trivial. Especially if the build process uses proprietary stuff such as "GitHub actions". The issues and discussions are all Github-only, too.

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#13

⮕ git push ERROR: Repository not found. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. That scared me for a minute. ':D

Yeah, retriggered our deploy pipeline a few times, checked downdetector and no reports, logged in to machine and verified external connection.

Sighed, assumed I was on the first wave of an incident on top of their current slack incident, then logged off for the day.

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#14
post #5

Github is becoming too important. A routine backup system is needed, something like archive.org, that backs up important Github projects.

If only there was a decentralized system to allow version management of code.

Sadly, GitHub doesn't store its value-add assets within the repository itself; so all of the PR conversations, Gists, Issues, and so forth aren't within git itself.

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#15
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That exists on every dev’s machine.

In theory, the code is there, but putting a project back together in a hurry after trouble at Github is non-trivial. Especially if the build process uses proprietary stuff such as "GitHub actions". The issues and discussions are all Github-only, too.

The source code of the actions is in your repo. This is more of the problem of relying on proprietary software; if the company that makes it dies, you die too!

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#16
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That exists on every dev’s machine.

In theory, the code is there, but putting a project back together in a hurry after trouble at Github is non-trivial. Especially if the build process uses proprietary stuff such as "GitHub actions". The issues and discussions are all Github-only, too.

It’s crazy that there is no common CI spec. Every single platform is completely different.

Last time I tried Act it had some pretty severe limitations. Perhaps I should take it for another spin.

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only there was a decentralized system to allow version management of code.

You'd still need some sort of centralized... hub to communicate and manage things.

Like the internet itself?

Re: We are investigating reports of degraded performance

#20
post #5

Github is becoming too important. A routine backup system is needed, something like archive.org, that backs up important Github projects.

Host a backup of your own code? It’s easy and can be done on a rpi. I wrote a go program in 1000 lines that automatically does this for me. And then I actually started using that as the main source and pushing the backup to github.

It also pulls down anything i star into a different folder which get a sync one a day. The rest get a sync every hour.

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