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Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

> Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker

Email and mailing lists?

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#42
post #19
post #13

It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

people could not be more clear that their preference is for reliable and easy-to-use centralized services maintained by professionals, and not decentralized systems that require a great deal of user expertise

Thats mostly because of herdmentality not because of a considered approach. Decentralization assumes the majority are anti social.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#44
post #13

It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

> Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker Email and mailing lists?

That's the same as not having one.

Otherwise you can claim Facebook is distributed because you can email people links to Facebook pages.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#46
post #13

It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

Is there a world in which GitHub used an open protocol for the social network part of their product like BlueSky's AT protocol[0]?

[0] https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#48
Not sure if I am just noticing GitHub's issues more often as I am using their tools pretty much every day but their availability is kinda not great. Be it Actions failing or something "not core business" (read: git operations) but I can't remember a month in the past where I was not annoyed by any outage on GitHub

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#49
post #13

It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

Yes, conveniences like:

- A canonical name and place on the web;

- Access policy enforcement (who can commit and when);

- The whole pull request thing, with tags, issues, review, discussion, etc linked to it;

- Code review, linked to said policy enforcement;

- Issue tracking, even as basic as what GitHub offers;

- A trusted store for signing keys, so commits are verified;

- CI/CD triggers and runners;

- A page with releases, including binary releases, and a CDN allowing to use the download links without fear.

This is way more than distrusted version tracking. Actually the above is not even married to Git; it could be as valuable with Mercurial, or even Perforce.

This is a large product, actually a combination of many potentially self-contained products. It should not be compared to Git, but rather to Gitea or BitBucket. Not all of this can be reasonably decentralized, though quite a bit can.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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post #13

It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

People said that when GitHub got bought out, and only more people ended up moving there. It's really not fun to manage your own Git servers, and when things go down, they get fixed much slower than in-house hosted version of it.
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