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Re: GitHub down

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Post by leeoniya » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:18 PM UTC

leeoniya wrote: post #49

jeppz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I didn't know, not everyone uses it on a daily basis.

so is it interesting for you to know that a service you don't use daily is down for a couple hours? this random github outage happens basically every other month, and is fixed in like 30 minutes. every time it's on HN frontpage. people who use Github will already know.

oh look, it's up again.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by JdeBP » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:23 PM UTC

MrBingley wrote: post #92

Should be the name of a movie. "How will the world's hackers react when their source code goes offline? GitHub Down, watch it now!"

We know how they react. It's the same reaction as when their chat rooms go off-line. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109735

Re: GitHub down

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Post by slig » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:24 PM UTC

d4nyll wrote: post #43

If the stars align and Stack Overflow goes down too, I can just go home.

You can use the cached version from Google.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by javamelon » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC

castis wrote: post #135

willejs wrote: post #22

It is only a matter of time before someone here suggests you use self hosted gitlab/github enterprise. Ain't got time for that.

Is it so absurd that some people would want a service they use on a daily basis to be stable?

That is why self hosting is not the best solution.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

The VCS is still decentralized (you can share code with your neighbour or across the world), it's the administration (tickets, PRs, etc) that aren't.

I think it'd be fairly straightforward for github or a competitor to store those things in git as plain markdown files, either alongside the main source code, or (as it does with GH Pages) in a separate branch (that has nothing in common with the master branch but it's still in the same repo).

Similar (maybe) is ADR (http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-archit...), storing architectural decisions into numbered files in git. See also: https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools

Re: GitHub down

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Post by knownothing » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:29 PM UTC

zbentley wrote: post #115

skeddles wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitBucket was down most of yesterday

See my reply to nik736's comment in this subthread: bitbucket.org is just Atlassian's copy of BitBucket, which you can buy from them and hose yourself. EDIT: I meant "host", not "hose", but given some of my experience sysadminning Atlassian products, the sentence may still be correct.

> bitbucket.org is just Atlassian's copy of BitBucket, which you can buy from them and hose yourself.

This is incorrect. Bitbucket Cloud and Server are two completely separate codebases. On the other hand, GitHub Enterprise is basically a snapshot of the production GitHub application.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by mhluongo » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

shawabawa3 wrote: post #6

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

$2 billion to the first person to draft a decentralised git coin WhitePaper

Gitcoin already exists :) https://gitcoin.co/

Re: GitHub down

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Post by anowlcalledjosh » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:36 PM UTC

james33 wrote: post #78

Is it just me or is the new GitHub Status page a joke? It used to show historical charts for uptime and latency for each of the different services, which was actually useful. Now it is just a daily messages list.

Yes, I noticed that too. I wonder when the charts got removed.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by yellowsir » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:37 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #66

coding123 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you just did.

No. We need a proper whitepaper explaining how to make GitHub decentralized with blockchain tokenization using distributed smart-contracts. ;) (Did I forget any important buzzword?)

why not just use git-ssb? some gateways:

http://git-ssb.celehner.com/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQ... http://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf... http://localhost:7718/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf2Dt...

edit:fix links

Re: GitHub down

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Post by u801e » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:38 PM UTC

hashkb wrote: post #77

runeks wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you’re saying that if I put up my own Git server (for a fee), it’s likely to have better uptime statistics than GitHub? I can’t push changes to the decentralized Git protocol, only to a (centralized) server instance.

You can email patches. This is now the Linux team works.

The code for git itself is also managed the same way (though I don't think there are any subsystems in git, unlike the kernel).