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Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition

GH was acquired by microsoft some eight years ago. It has been working quite well until recently. People may have had complaints about functionality, features, commercial issues, but the thing used to at least have a decent uptime until recently.

It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources.

Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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This is getting ridiculous. One particularly concerning thing I’m seeing is that pull requests on both the web UI and API aren’t reflecting all commits or branch changes consistently. It would be very easy to merge something without realizing you’re not actually reviewing the full diff.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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post #10

Again? It was just yesterday [0] that GA was down and another incident today? I am convinced that Copilot and Tay.ai are destroying GitHub and there is no CEO of GitHub to contact. Now will you please self-host as I said 6 years ago? [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278635 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

You think a Microsoft chatbot from 2016 is destroying GitHub?

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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post #6

https://isgithubcooked.com Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.

They are already cooked as this has been happening ever since the Microsoft acquisition and it was run to the ground before 2023.

At this point you would get better uptime by just self-hosting your own GitLab, Forgejo or Codeberg instance instead of dealing with Github's unreliablity.

There is no defending them with their clear neglet and carelessness of the platform.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd consider self-hosting GitHub Enterprise before putting my team through the pain of Gitlab.

How is it painful to use GitLab? Curious, as a user of both, I find them both nice. I like GitLab CI/CD more than I do GHA, but that's personal preference/bias more than anything objective.

Gitlab CI has some tech debt from accumulating geological layers of different ways to do things, but overall it's pretty good, it scales to more complicated setups, and it's not too painful.

Now the best way to use GHA is to do the bare minimum. Put all your CI logic in a script that you can test locally, and just have GHA run your script. Even that is painful. And, somehow, impossible to make secure without having spent 5,000 hours reading all the previous ways people got pwn'd by Github Action's horrendous security model.

My main problem with Gitlab is that after years I still can't find what I'm looking for in the UI. It's always exactly in the third place I look. Otherwise Gitlab has been good. Even self-hosted works pretty well.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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post #12
post #6

https://isgithubcooked.com Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.

Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition

hey now, LinkedIn was terrible before Microsoft.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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GitHub is not agent scale.

Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.

It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load.

The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.

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