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GitHub Down Again?

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Re: GitHub Down Again?

#21

Yes, still having hiccups for me. I started having issues about 24 hours ago. What is the reason for this spate of outages? GitHub is a mature, stable product. What core features could its engineers possibly need to be working on that whatever they did broke core backend functionality so badly?

Might simply be infrastructure consolidation since Microsoft bought them. Same reason behind the Azure pipe / GitHub Actions mess.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#24

Yes, still having hiccups for me. I started having issues about 24 hours ago. What is the reason for this spate of outages? GitHub is a mature, stable product. What core features could its engineers possibly need to be working on that whatever they did broke core backend functionality so badly?

Might simply be infrastructure consolidation since Microsoft bought them. Same reason behind the Azure pipe / GitHub Actions mess.

GitHub actions is still a mess. I have outages once a week (variable time from minutes to hours).

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#25

What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/ Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.

"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric"

I regret that uptime became a clause in SLAs, or a reputation/marketing thing. I don't care about how many 9s are after your decimal, I just want to know if your service is down or if something is wrong on my end.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#26

Remember when git came out, one of its features was being a decentralized, distributed version control system? Yeah.

It still is one, but it’s easier to work with it if there’s a single source of truth.

You can still work on your Git tree, you just can’t sync with this SSOT.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#27

Remember when git came out, one of its features was being a decentralized, distributed version control system? Yeah.

I mean... it still is? I can work on my codebase and commit on my local machine. Push remote to Gitlab if Github is down. When Github is back up I can push to Github. What's the problem?

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#28

Remember when git came out, one of its features was being a decentralized, distributed version control system? Yeah.

Every time there's an outage with $SCMProvider, there's always a comment like this.

Git is not GitHub. GitHub is not git.

You can absolutely do git in a distributed way.

That doesn't help when your business workflow relies on GitHub for access control, artifact hosting, issue management, PR coordination & approval, and all the thousand other things that people use GitHub for.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#30

What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/ Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.

"operational" comes with strings attached. We don't know what internal SLAs specify but most likely the service is meeting those agreements. Should we get a refund? :)

Yes, my company is paying for my GH user seat.
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