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Re: Repos are disappearing from Gitlab

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Post by cmatija » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 11:58 AM UTC

OskarS wrote: post #9

And now gitlab.com returns 403 forbidden for me. Wonderful!

Sorry about that. Could you provide more context about it? We'd love to help.

Are you already logged in when that happens to you? If so, you should open an issue in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues with as much info as possible so we can look into it.

If you're getting that when you're trying to log-in, then you're having trouble accessing your GitLab.com account, with which our support team can help you - https://support.gitlab.com

Re: Repos are disappearing from Gitlab

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Post by corobo » Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 12:57 PM UTC

Xylakant wrote: post #24

laumars wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "because nobody is perfect. Come on." If only I could make the same counterargument when my clients complain about downtime. :) Sadly in the modern world people expect ridiculous uptimes and thus my expectations are just derived from my clients expectations. I don't like that much either but frankly clients often just get their expectations from their customers demands. These days people expect 24/7 uptime so my jo…

> If only I could make the same counterargument when my clients complain about downtime. :) If you can't make that argument, then you indeed have a problem. Downtimes happen, reducing them gets expensive fast. 95% is fairly simple, 99.999 is extremely hard - it requires redundancy on each and every level. Every time a client demands this, I reframe their request in terms of required engineering effort. Few, if any, a…

> Every time a client demands this, I reframe their request in terms of required engineering effort

Also a good option - reframe their request in terms of cost. They'll back down a 9 or two when you start adding commas to their monthly invoice.

Re: Repos are disappearing from Gitlab

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Post by ergo14 » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 10:53 AM UTC

JimDabell wrote: post #34

ergo14 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you can't self host bitbucket with mercurial support? I thought only the online version supports hg?

I think he was responding to: > Since I prefer Mercurial over git I don't have any other option than to run my own instance. You do have another option – you can use Mercurial with Bitbucket. Sure, it's not self-hosted, but you were complaining that you were forced to self-host because you prefer Mercurial, right?

I'm not compaining about self-hosting - in fact I prefer that.