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.
The history of tickets and PRs would be a major loss - but a beauty of git is that if at least one dev has the repo checked out then you can easily rehost the code history.
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It would be nice to have some sort of widespread standard for doing issue tracking, reviews, and CI in the repo, synced with the repo to all its clones (and fully from version-managed text-files and scripts) rather than in external, centralized, web tools.
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#232Looks like AI replacement of engineering force in action.
More like Tay.ai and Zoe.ai AIs still arguing amongst themselves not being able to keep the service online for Microsoft after they replaced their human counterparts.
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#233I was wondering why my AUR packages won’t update, just my luck.
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#235They put too much AI in it bot enough engineering rigor
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#236So, what're people's alt stack for replacing GitHub?
Codeberg, Tangled, Radicle!
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#238What are good alternatives to GitHub for private repos + actions? I'm considering moving my company off of it because of reliablity issues.
It probably depends on your scale, but I'd suggest self-hosting a Forgejo instance, if it's within your domain expertise to run a service like that. It's not hard to operate, it will be blazing fast, it provides most of the same capabilities, and you'll be in complete control over the costs and reliability.
A people have replied to you mentioning Codeberg, but that service is intended for Open Source projects, not private commercial work.
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#239That pink "Unicorn!" joke is something that should be reconsidered. When your services are down you're probably causing a lot of people a lot of stress ; I don't think it's the time to be cute and funny about it. EDIT: my bad, seems to be their server's name.
I am personally totally fine with it but I see your point. Github is a bit too big for often braking with a cutsey error message even if it is a reference to their web server.
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#240GitHub is slowly turning into the Deutsche Bahn of git providers.