Least reliable service that I pay for by a long shot.
Have you tried Bitbucket? While it lacks a lot of the social integration, it has the benefit of giving you 5 free private repositories.
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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!
http://bugseverywhere.org/ does distributed bug tracking.
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#33It's back up for me.
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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.
mpyne mentions bugs.kde.org's mailings as a fallback, but GitHub issues e-mails too.
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That and their wording suggests a single db server :/
They have a typical master/slave setup with memcached on the front. http://www.slideshare.net/err/inside-github
Since they're using MySQL, is there a technical reason (as opposed to historical/lack of time reason) they're not using Galera Cluster?
I'm in the process of migrating an existing datastore to MariaDB+Galera, and so far it seems like everything I could hope for in a clustered RDBMS.
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#38I 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.
Try ports, perhaps? http://www.macports.org/
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#39Database outage causing everything to go down?
Imagine that. A site dependent on a database.
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Must not pay for very many services? https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month
To be fair 99.77% uptime isn't very good.
It's about 1/4th the downtime my company's little project server has had in the past month, and that's with SVN, not git, which means workflow was even more seriously disrupted.