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Re: Github major service outage

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Post by TkTech »

PommeDeTerre wrote: post #12

I find it somewhat odd that, given git's emphasis on distributed version control, we see so many git users have centralized themselves quite heavily on GitHub. Whenever GitHub runs into problems like this, it reminds me of when a team's CVS or Subversion servers used to go down. It could be a pretty disruptive occurrence, if it wasn't resolved quickly. While git can theoretically handle this better, in practice the u…

You can also add multiple urls to your remotes. When you push, it'll go to all of them. I do this at home with a tiny server on a mini-atx box and github. Set it and forget it.

There's no reason you can't do the same thing with a small box in the office and get the best of both worlds.

Re: Github major service outage

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Post by justizin »

appplemac wrote: post #20
knowtheory wrote: post #17

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How is it at all odd? Github offers a convenient platform for using git. People use it. If Github were to explode forever tomorrow, active projects would just take their locally cloned repositories, and put them online somewhere else and carry on committing (albeit sans github's awesome social tools). That's the real power git offers us. It's just a fact of reality that most projects centrally organize through a few…

Yes, but Github is not just about Git hosting, it's about all those awesome social tools. If you use Issues as the main bug tracker, for example, you've got a problem.

Please point me at your distributed issue tracker project. I'd love to contribute!

Re: Github major service outage

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Post by spacemanaki »

PommeDeTerre wrote: post #12

I find it somewhat odd that, given git's emphasis on distributed version control, we see so many git users have centralized themselves quite heavily on GitHub. Whenever GitHub runs into problems like this, it reminds me of when a team's CVS or Subversion servers used to go down. It could be a pretty disruptive occurrence, if it wasn't resolved quickly. While git can theoretically handle this better, in practice the u…

Even worse is other tools that rely on Github, like Homebrew (Mac OS X package manager) which breaks in various silly ways when Github is down.

Anyone happen to know a way around this specifically? Trying to install some stuff and brew just bails after getting 5xx from github.com.

Re: Github major service outage

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Post by ryanpetrich »

justizin wrote: post #23
appplemac wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but Github is not just about Git hosting, it's about all those awesome social tools. If you use Issues as the main bug tracker, for example, you've got a problem.

Please point me at your distributed issue tracker project. I'd love to contribute!

Fossil includes distributed issue tracking: http://www.fossil-scm.org

Re: Github major service outage

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Post by mpyne »

justizin wrote: post #23
appplemac wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but Github is not just about Git hosting, it's about all those awesome social tools. If you use Issues as the main bug tracker, for example, you've got a problem.

Please point me at your distributed issue tracker project. I'd love to contribute!

At KDE we use Bugzilla with automatic status emails to various mailing lists and projects.

So even if bugs.kde.org were to go down, we'd still be able to fix code at git.kde.org, and use the lists.kde.org mailing list archives to lookup bug details as a backup. We'd probably use a mailing list system that doesn't suck like kde.markmail.org or GMANE for that last part, but that's just shaving the yak...

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