Hopefully this will spark a productive conversation about the advantages and disadvantages of centralizing a decentralized VCS.
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#12Great opportunity to try out decentralised alternatives like https://radicle.xyz/
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#14Seeing the unicorn on GitHub, I opened HN and the first post confirms that GitHub is down for everyone else too :)
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#15What's the best practice for high availability (self-hosted?) repositories? Is there a pass-through proxy for git? Or a leader-follower arrangement that is nice, with a proxy server?
You could have a selfhosted gitea or gitlab instance that mirrors your GitHub repo. I use that as backup for some GitHub repos.
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#16Happy Friday :/
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#17This is becoming a regular occurrence by now..
I wonder if reliability has become less of a priority. As somebody with little to no experience of running things at scale I’m finding myself attributing this to some form of “move fast and break things”.
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#18I was in the middle of some last minute pre-weekend PR review, and midway I discover it can't actually submit any of my comments. Is there a way to review and save (intermediate) state offline?
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#19Unfortunately right when we were trying to deploy a hot-fix to production, our CI can't clone the PR to run tests. What do other folks use to avoid this situation? Have a Gitlab instance or similar that you can pull from instead for CI?
Can you make a local build? Our fallback is that someone does the CI/CD steps manually.
Unfortunately we heavily shard our tests, running on a single laptop would take a while.
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#20Great opportunity to try out decentralised alternatives like https://radicle.xyz/
This is probably the worst time to try out an alternative.