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Re: GitHub's down?

#31
post #8

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perhaps a good time to reconsider depending on a third party for your important services to deploy?

Yes, but these decisions aren't under me plus setting up a github kind of thing is way too time consuming with all the features that we're used to now.

A GitLab droplet on Digital Ocean should run you only $10/month and literally sets up in ~10 min.

Re: GitHub's down?

#32
post #6

To me, that looks like an angry unicorn ... does that mean it's another DDoS? It would also be interesting to track loss of productivity in the software engineering professions when GitHub is down. Is this a single point of failure for your company?

It's just git you'd go and get the code from literally anywhere else its being used.

Re: GitHub's down?

#33
post #22
post #4

https://status.github.com/messages >Today >11:32 UTC "We're seeing high error rates on github.com and are investigating". >11:40 UTC "We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site".

Just noticed an interesting design decision on that page. An 'everything OK' message once a day. One way to push previous downtime below the fold of the page.

Notice the change in the favicon.

Re: GitHub's down?

#34
post #20

Funny, I switched our projects to Gitlab a week ago and told the team: Because we should not trust a centrealized platform to keep our code decentralized.

That is Murphy trolling you very, very hard.

Re: GitHub's down?

#35
post #22
post #4

https://status.github.com/messages >Today >11:32 UTC "We're seeing high error rates on github.com and are investigating". >11:40 UTC "We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site".

Just noticed an interesting design decision on that page. An 'everything OK' message once a day. One way to push previous downtime below the fold of the page.

It's also a way to show "yes, this status check is still reliably doing its job, it hasn't crashed".

Re: GitHub's down?

#37
That's when you notice how dependent you can be on GitHub.

You would think you can still develop an iOS app when GitHub is down, but a simple `pod install` requires access to repos hosted on GitHub.

Re: GitHub's down?

#38
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps a good time to reconsider depending on a third party for your important services to deploy?

Yes, but these decisions aren't under me plus setting up a github kind of thing is way too time consuming with all the features that we're used to now.

Maybe now would be a good time to point out the downsides of that decision to whoever made it.

Re: GitHub's down?

#39

For everyone who is currently loosing productivity, perhaps your time might be well spent reviewing `git daemon`: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon

how does that help for the long long lists of external dependencies, for the bugtrackers of projects where I'd like to look up if someone else had the same issue and maybe there's a workaround, to view and compare code for older revisions of projects I'm using?

With a ton of projects now hosted on github, github being down is a major dent in my overall productivity even though we _do_ have an internal git server.

Re: GitHub's down?

#40
post #26

For everyone who is currently loosing productivity, perhaps your time might be well spent reviewing `git daemon`: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon

Or setup Gitlab for bigger teams, they even offer a Docker image.

There's even an AMI image for Amazon ec2 hosts IIRC, which brings down the costs when coupled with a reserved instance.
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