That's it, I'm launching SubversionHub.
At least you won't have to rename "trunk" to something else years later for some PC reason.
GitHub was down again
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#102Likely unrelated, but I recently noticed that GitHub stopped updating my activities overview for july. I definitely pushed commits, but they are not noticed. Anyone else having a similar issue?
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#103I was seeing PRs failing to update & webhooks failing to trigger upon pushing code for 30 minutes before GH's status page acknowledged anything. I'm surprised they don't have monitoring in place that would catch webhooks failing within minutes of the failure beginning.
At large bureaucratic organisations there's often political implications of changing the official status, so often it lags behind reality until it cannot be swept under the rug anymore Not saying it's right, just an observation
Honestly I think this can be true at any size organization. Small startups often take the approach of "let's hope no one noticed while we try to fix it", it's just that they have fewer users to notice so it's more likely to work.
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#104Running your own git server is trivial. I have been doing it for years on a very cheap digital ocean instance. Set up ssh keys, lock it down with ufw, done.
If that is not enough, run your own instance of gitlab.
If that is not enough use Gitlab.
Microsoft is going to attempt to make a profit on Github. That's okay, but based on past experience and current issues, their business model is lock-in not service.
I suspect the same is true for NPM.
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#105Don’t host yourself, it’s impossible to meet the reliability of the professionals
I think that one size fits all host it yourself / don't host it yourself is the wrong approach. For some organizations that have dedicated devops people and can easily maintain their own servers, they may be able to have better uptime and reliability for their instance. For smaller shops that don't have the time or expertise, I think it us true that GIT hosting is one of the many services that should be handled by a Cloud Service whether Github or Gitlab (or someone else).
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#106There have been at least three major outages, e.g. git clone of a repo, in the past week alone. All three of which have been unreported (and NOT shown on their incident page), but I have email confirmation from GitHub support of these issues. It's almost time to switch to Gitlab. I have hundreds of repositories, organizations, and packages to transfer, while it will be daunting... I need reliability. I have several p…
To be fair they've been busy fixing the issue of slavery nomenclature in that time too. Respect where respect is due, important issues are being tackled here, you can't do everything at once. https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312
I cannot say if this comment is being sarcastic, but for the record I found it hilarious. Thanks :)
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#107The Microsoft Effect
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#108Git is distributed.
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#109Here we are again. Me taking a break on Hackernews because all my webhooks and pull requests are fucked and I have no idea where my devops tools are relative to what the real state of affairs is. I have pretty much had enough of this. It is too disruptive to our process. It is causing fragility and loss of confidence in our build pipeline. At this point, we would probably be better off just bolting some lightweight g…
We've been self hosting Gitlab CE for a couple of years. Its been great. No downtime, upgrades are seamless, fast, works.
Gitlab is probably at the top of the list of candidates if we go down this road. I don't necessarily need it to be in the same binary as my devops tools, but certainly no further than localhost or another machine on the same network.
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#110https://gitea.io/en-us/ https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ https://about.gitlab.com/install/?version=ce
https://gogs.io/ as well
For those that don't know, Gitea forked from Gogs a while back and they are very much being developed with two different philosophy. If you take take a look at the active contributors for Gitea and Gogs, you can tell how much they differ now.
There are two active contributors for Gogs, while Gitea has 27. Note, the number of contributors can't tell you if one has higher quality or not, I just wanted to point out the difference in development philosophy.
Given that Gitea has significantly more active developers working on it, we can probably assume it can add functionality faster than Gogs though.