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GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

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Re: GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

#46
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.githubstatus.com/history lists 72 incidents since January

The point isn't that GitLab has more, the point is that running these things at global scale is pretty complicated, and everyone has problems. "Just switch to GitLab" is pithy but isn't in itself an actual solution.

You can self-host GitLab and have few, if any, incidents that get resolved very quickly. Worked for a company that had no incidents that I observed in ~3 years, now work at a company that had ~2 incidents in 1.5 years.

Re: GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

#47
I debugged for one min at 11:59 trying to push, and then my eat-lunch notification came in at 12:00 and I opened hackernews with a tuna sandwich and this is super helpful because it means I wont need to debug it locally for 10 mins before figuring out Github is down.

Edit - Just want to clarify when I say "opened hackernews with a tuna sandwich" I want to clear up that I did indeed full on mash the keyboard letters with my sandwich. It's costing me a fortune in keyboards every day and it's ruining my sandwich most days as well, I think I have an issue.

Re: GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

#48
post #40

Why don't we all collectively mirror our repos to gitlab and switch development to there during the monthly outage?

Feature mismatch of anything outside Git. And no one wrote the tooling needed to synchronize issues, pull/merge requests, ... back and forth.

Even so, for a lot of devs its still easier as a temporary collaboration point than sending patches via mail.

Re: GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

#50
post #47

I debugged for one min at 11:59 trying to push, and then my eat-lunch notification came in at 12:00 and I opened hackernews with a tuna sandwich and this is super helpful because it means I wont need to debug it locally for 10 mins before figuring out Github is down. Edit - Just want to clarify when I say "opened hackernews with a tuna sandwich" I want to clear up that I did indeed full on mash the keyboard letters w…

Ideally both GitHub and HN would be down at the same time. With nowhere to discuss the former, people might actually get something done.
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