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Re: GitHub is down again

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You know what I think would reverse the trend? More vibe coding!

I know you are joking but I'm sure that there is at least one director or VP inside GitHub pushing a new salvation project that must use AI to solve all the problems, when actually the most likely reason is engineers are drawing in tech debt.

Better to replace management by AI.

Computers can produce spreadsheets even better and they can warm the air around you even faster.

Re: GitHub is down again

#172

Can we please demand that Github provide mirror APIs to competitors? We're just asking for an extinction-level event. "Oops, our AI deleted the world's open source." Any public source code hosting service should be able to subscribe to public repo changes. It belongs to the authors, not to Microsoft.

Every repo usually has at least one local copy somewhere, worst would be few old repos disappear.

Re: GitHub is down again

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have you considered moving or having at least an alternative? asking as someone using caddy for personal hosting who likes to have their website secure. :)

> have you considered moving or having at least an alternative Not who you're responding to, but my 2 cents: for a popular open-source project reliant on community contributions there is really no alternative. It's similar to social media - we all know it's trash and noxious, but if you're any kind of public figure you have to be there.

N.I.N.A. (Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy) is on bitbucket and it seems to be doing really well.

Edit: Nevermind, looks like they migrated to github since the last time I contributed

Re: GitHub is down again

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I wonder who left the team recently. Must be someone bagged with shadow knowledge. Or maybe they send devops/devs work to another continent.

They're in the process of moving from "legacy" infra to Azure, so there's a ton of churn happening behind the scenes. That's probably why things keep exploding.

Are they just going to tough through the process and whatever...

Re: GitHub is down again

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Are you kidding? I need my code to pass CI, and get reviewed, so I can move on, otherwise the PRs just keep piling. You might as well say the lights could go out, you can do paperwork.

> otherwise the PRs just keep piling Good news! You can't create new PRs right now anyway, so they won't pile.

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Re: GitHub is down again

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Github is moving to Microsoft Azure which is causing all of this downtime AFAIK

That's cover. They've been doing that since microsoft bought them

Yeah but that's exactly the issue - that whole time dev time will have been getting chewed up on the migration when it could have been spent elsewhere

Re: GitHub is down again

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the incident has now expanded to include webhooks, git operations, actions, general page load + API requests, issues, and pull requests. they're effectively down hard. hopefully its down all day. we need more incidents like this to happen for people to get a glimpse of the future.

And hey, its about the best excuse for not getting work done I can think of

Re: GitHub is down again

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What are good alternatives to GitHub for private repos + actions? I'm considering moving my company off of it because of reliablity issues.

I left for codeberg.org and my own ci runner with woodpecker. Soooo much faster than github

Re: GitHub is down again

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I wonder who left the team recently. Must be someone bagged with shadow knowledge. Or maybe they send devops/devs work to another continent.

They're in the process of moving from "legacy" infra to Azure, so there's a ton of churn happening behind the scenes. That's probably why things keep exploding.

I don't know jack about shit here, but genuinely: why migrate a live production system piecewise? Wouldn't it be far more sane to start building a shadow copy on Azure and let that blow up in isolation while real users keep using the real service on """legacy""" systems that still work?
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