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Really at this point, you just might as well consider self hosting and it is looking very chronic with GitHub falling apart and self-hosting was indeed the sensible idea just like how the other open source projects have done for years.
GitHub is going just great, and centralizing everything to GitHub really was a good idea wasn't it? [1] /s
Three days in a row of outages, in less than a week of unreliability after yesterday's downtime of GitHub Actions [0]. Really at this point, you just might as well consider self hosting and it is looking very chronic with GitHub falling apart and self-hosting was indeed the sensible idea just like how the other open source projects have done for years. GitHub is going just great, and centralizing everything to GitHub…
(/s of course)
Anecdotal - I've been using Gitlab for a few years on some projects, and haven't experienced any downtime issues with them of this magnitude.
Same. Overall, I like GitLab a lot more than GitHub. I wonder how much of GitHub's popularity is buoyed by its status as the defacto home for OSS
The temptation to create `isgithubup.com` and return "surprisingly yes." on the rare occasion it actually is up.
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Ah, unbalanced shards via wrong sharding keys was an issue at one point, IIRC. I remember talking with an SRE there when something bad happened at GitHub last year, and I know that this time the current DB cluster failed. To be clear, I _was_ mapping previous incidents with this year's incident — no competitor or hard feelings involved. I really like Vitess, fwiw. And the only thing I really love is FoundationDB :)
That wasn't clear. Side note: "Autosharding" is largely a myth that unproven databases are touting. Sharding is complex and requires planning and control. Databases that start shuffling data round without oversight produce nasty surprises. Trying to be too magic is normally always a mistake with databases.
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Gitea is pretty light on resources so even though it has a extra functionality you don't need it's not really a resource pig. Unlike say, GitLab.
Gitea requires a database which is unwanted feature for "git server" in my little world. I'm just looking for "website" (read: interface) that list files over HTTPS, with the ability to show nice looking diffs. Some sort of ssh keys(?) to prevent unauthorized access etc.
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
I've not used it personally though, so no idea how well it works in practise.
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My money is on some significant backend architecture migration gone wrong without a viable way to roll back the time machine :)
Feels like an organization as big as Microsoft must surely have some sort contingency plan in place before doing such a large migration. Right?
Just lost a merge commit to dev/null. This is getting tiresome
How??? You do the merge, which either creates a new commit for the change, or appends the commits to your existing tree. Then you push that to the remote. If the push fails, you can just push again, it's not lost. And if the merge failed, you didn't have any merge commit to begin with.
What is going on over there? Third day in a row is... kind of impressive.