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Re: Days without GitHub incidents

#21

Post by IshKebab »

dijit wrote: post #8

Lots of apologia for Github here. Aside from the fact that defending a billion-dollar company is a bit strange; especially one that is steward to the the overwhelming majority of open-source software. Maybe that's good-will doing the work? For me it's always been a sour pill to swallow that I have to buy in to a large companies internal politics and practices in order to work on projects I love. I don't feel like I o…

> Maybe that's good-will doing the work?

Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.

Re: Days without GitHub incidents

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Post by rectang »

H8crilA wrote: post #10
honeycrispy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is some good life advice

and it leads to triple 9 availability (80.999%), or better

/ponder .oO( any irrational number has "infinite nines" )

/ponder .oO( i must be one of today's lucky 10000 https://xkcd.com/1053/ )

Re: Days without GitHub incidents

#26

Post by kevmo »

IshKebab wrote: post #21
dijit wrote: post #8

Lots of apologia for Github here. Aside from the fact that defending a billion-dollar company is a bit strange; especially one that is steward to the the overwhelming majority of open-source software. Maybe that's good-will doing the work? For me it's always been a sour pill to swallow that I have to buy in to a large companies internal politics and practices in order to work on projects I love. I don't feel like I o…

> Maybe that's good-will doing the work? Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.

You're right, but that GitHub is dead.

Also, the former stewards of that open source goodness sold it to Microsoft for a cheap buck.

Any goodwill they earned has been spent.

Re: Days without GitHub incidents

#27

Post by jh00ker »

reaperducer wrote: post #11
mproud wrote: post #6

Supposedly commits on GitHub are up 14x YoY.

Supposedly commits on GitHub are up 14x YoY. So? If Microsoft can't scale, who can? If it can't provide the service, it should stop selling until it can. This is like the AOL dialup busy signal fiasco of the mid-90's all over again. Except this time, instead of getting mad, people are making excuses for the poor, beleaguered trillion-dollar company.

>If it can't provide the service, it should stop selling until it can.

You literally cannot buy GitHub Copilot right now [1].

1: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

Re: Days without GitHub incidents

#28

Post by otterley »

dijit wrote: post #8

Lots of apologia for Github here. Aside from the fact that defending a billion-dollar company is a bit strange; especially one that is steward to the the overwhelming majority of open-source software. Maybe that's good-will doing the work? For me it's always been a sour pill to swallow that I have to buy in to a large companies internal politics and practices in order to work on projects I love. I don't feel like I o…

Let me ask the question in reverse: what do you have against them such that the fellow human beings struggling to maintain their operations don’t deserve even a modicum of kindness, respect, and good will? Are you unable to separate the business from the hard working people behind it?

It’s not like they don’t know that people like us are counting on them: they recognize that their service is the “dial tone” for much of the world’s software development capability. They are keenly aware of the impact.

What happened to #hugops? Does it go out the window because those people happen to work for a company you don’t like?

Re: Days without GitHub incidents

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Post by gordon_freeman »

IshKebab wrote: post #21
dijit wrote: post #8

Lots of apologia for Github here. Aside from the fact that defending a billion-dollar company is a bit strange; especially one that is steward to the the overwhelming majority of open-source software. Maybe that's good-will doing the work? For me it's always been a sour pill to swallow that I have to buy in to a large companies internal politics and practices in order to work on projects I love. I don't feel like I o…

> Maybe that's good-will doing the work? Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.

they are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.
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