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Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#11

Post by garciasn »

How reliable is githubstatus.com? I know that status pages are generally not updated until Leadership and/or PR has a chance to approve the changes; is that the case here?

Our health check checks against githubstatus.com to verify 'why' there may be a GHA failure and reports it, e.g.

Cannot run: repo clone failed — GitHub is reporting issues (Partial System Outage: 'Incident with Copilot and Actions'). No cached manifests available.

But, if it's not updated, we get more generic responses. Are there better ways that you all employ (other than to not use GHA, you silly haters :-))

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#14

Post by joecool1029 »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #8
joecool1029 wrote: post #2

codeberg might be a little slower on git cli, but at least it's not becoming a weekly 'URL returned error: 500' situation...

I mean, this isn't a 'URL returned error: 500' situation for anything that Codeberg provides considering this is an issue with Copilot and Actions.

Except actually it was, that was what my git client was reporting trying to run a pull.

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#15

Post by jsheard »

khaledh wrote: post #13

GitHub has been shit lately. What the fuck is going on?

Top-down mandates to use AI as much as possible, and to rip up their infrastructure and move everything to Azure.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/using-ai-is-no-long...

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#16

Post by overshard »

I've taken to hosting everything critical like this myself on a single system with Docker Compose with regular off premises backups and a restore process that I know works because I test it every 6 months. I can swap from local hosting to a VPS in 30 mins if I need to. It seems like the majority of large services like GitHub have had increasingly annoying downtime while I try to get work done. If you know what you're doing it's a false premise that you'll just have more issues with self hosting. If you don't know what you are doing it's becoming an increasingly good time to learn. I've had 4 years of continuous uptime on my services at this point. I still push to third parties like GitHub as yet another backup and see the occasional 500 and my workflow keeps chugging along. I've gotten old and grumpy and rather just do it myself.

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#17

Post by duckkg5 »

garciasn wrote: post #11

How reliable is githubstatus.com? I know that status pages are generally not updated until Leadership and/or PR has a chance to approve the changes; is that the case here? Our health check checks against githubstatus.com to verify 'why' there may be a GHA failure and reports it, e.g. Cannot run: repo clone failed — GitHub is reporting issues (Partial System Outage: 'Incident with Copilot and Actions'). No cached mani…

Right now the page says Copilot and Actions are affected but I can't even push anything to a repo from the CLI.

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#18

Post by popcornricecake »

joecool1029 wrote: post #2

codeberg might be a little slower on git cli, but at least it's not becoming a weekly 'URL returned error: 500' situation...

These days it feels like people have simply forgotten that you could also just have a bare repository on a VPS and use it over ssh.

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

#20

Post by cyberax »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #7
joecool1029 wrote: post #2

codeberg might be a little slower on git cli, but at least it's not becoming a weekly 'URL returned error: 500' situation...

I rarely successfully get Codeberg URLs to load. Which is sad because I actually would very much like to recommend it but I find it unreliable as a source. That being said, GitHub is Microsoft now, known for that Microsoft 360 uptime.

> Microsoft 360 uptime

I mean... It's right in the name! It's up for 360 days a year.

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