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GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by andrewxdiamond »

bastardoperator wrote: post #39
andrewxdiamond wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And work is constantly slow as well, since it’s impossible to get people in the room at the same time

Why does everyone need to be in the room? I have a groomed backlog and can talk to people async as needed. We also record meetings if you missed them and depending on the context of the meeting or importance, we'll hold timezone friendly meetings for everyone as required.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We have a different work philosophy. I do work with teams in India and England, and it’s painful to accomplish anything cross team

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by mardifoufs »

bencevans wrote: post #37
temp_account_32 wrote: post #4

Funnily enough, GitLab is also melting down at the moment, with pipelines not running and pull requests not functioning: https://status.gitlab.com/

Also causing issues due to a change that's made release source tars change [1] (changing hash), so build systems are rejecting [2]. 1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/402616 2: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/30481

Isn't that the same "bug" that happened to github a few weeks ago when they updated their Git version too? It wasn't a bug per say but they still had to revert because the new hashes were causing massive build problems. Maybe it's a different root cause though.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by zamnos »

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #33
zamnos wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your pager rotation like? I want to say you have follows-the-sun, and so your on-call shifts are 12-hours long and you swap with a team on the other side of the world from you so you can get said sleep, but I don't want to just assume that.

Dayshifts are 9-5, night shifts are 5-9. Same team rotates through both. I have done plenty of overnight oncalls. Some teams do follow the sun type rotations, but my team is all in Seattle.

Fascinating, glad I asked!

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by c-hendricks »

kingds wrote: post #36
nightfly wrote: post #19

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Gitlab has "merge requests" the comment you're replying was trying to point out an error in an annoying way

i tried to add a lil laughing emoji to indicate that my comment was in jest but apparently those get stripped out of comments? my bad.

Yeah HN doesn't want people to be _too_ expressive.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by xxpor »

nimbius wrote: post #25

how is it in just five years microsoft has managed to pedal this once vibrant and bustling community of developers and creatives into a roaring dumpster fire of sketcky GPL breaking copilot AI and endless seemingly random outages. https://www.githubstatus.com/history github has had 55 outages in 3 months. thats nearly an outage every two days. the last six months of 2022 had 74 outages. In many shops thats tangibly w…

comments like these are what end up incentivizing companies to hide outages and report all green all the time

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by OJFord »

nightfly wrote: post #19
tmpz22 wrote: post #18

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A pull request is a process which can merge new code into existing code. "Software Engineer John was tasked to add a new logo to the website, when he was done he submitted a pull request of his feature branch into his organization's github repository for the website so that his team members could approve the changes before automation (like Github Actions ) deployed live as a new version of the website."

Gitlab has "merge requests" the comment you're replying was trying to point out an error in an annoying way

Not even an error frankly, MR, PR, change request, patch set, personally don't care what you call it, it's the same thing.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by momentoftop »

kingds wrote: post #16
temp_account_32 wrote: post #4

Funnily enough, GitLab is also melting down at the moment, with pipelines not running and pull requests not functioning: https://status.gitlab.com/

what's a pull request?

It's a request to the owner of some reference in a Git repository to pull in some changes from some reference in some (possibly other) Git repository. You can do this via email, but centralised Git hosts like Github have their own interface to this basic workflow.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by smcleod »

kingds wrote: post #16
temp_account_32 wrote: post #4

Funnily enough, GitLab is also melting down at the moment, with pipelines not running and pull requests not functioning: https://status.gitlab.com/

what's a pull request?

I agree the naming is misleading - it's not actually a request to pull anything - it's a request to merge someone's branch into another. This is known as a merge request on several other platforms.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Post by aojdwhsd »

carlmr wrote: post #23
rvz wrote: post #5

Once again, just two days ago [0], the whole of GitHub went down, after the RSA key leakage and the certificate key expiry on its user facing site. It is also apparent that GitHub Actions has chronically been struggling to operate normally for at least once a month for years. There is no question that GitHub has been more unreliable than if you were to use a self-hosted GitLab or Gittea instance yourself as I said be…

Gittea is great but it doesn't replace GHA, only the rest of GitHub.

They've actually just rolled out an early version of Gitea Actions in the most recent release, which are mostly compatible with GitHub actions.

https://blog.gitea.io/2023/03/gitea-1.19.0-is-released/#-git...

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