Hopefully it's just them reverting their latest UI changes
GitHub was down
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Re: GitHub was down
#62I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072
How about a more low-tech solution? I don't want/need a full-blown web application like Gitlab, just need somethings than auto-syncs my public and private repos so that i can still access everything when Github is down. Any ideas?
If you are working alone on these projects, store bare git repository in Dropbox and/or similar services that sync data through all your devices.
If more privacy is required, you can use something like gocryptfs to only send encrypted data to these services.
Syncthing is a similar option that doesn't require an external service, also doesn't require local encryption since all data in transit is always encrypted.
This has a big caveat though: there's no locking mechanism that will work reliably on the bare git repo, so you may have to resolve some conflicts manually if two separate devices push to the same git repo at the same. This is why you should only use this method of you work alone on these repos.
Re: GitHub was down
#63Savage Unicorn, Github who knew.
Re: GitHub was down
#64They’re minutes away from dropping below two nines looking at Issues, Pull Requests, Projects. Other services look comparably unreliable.
Re: GitHub was down
#65It is ironic that a version control system engineered to be distributed is now typically used in such a centralised way.
Re: GitHub was down
#66This is a nice reminder that you can have multiple remote repos and push/pull to all of them at the same time. For my side projects I usually use both github and google cloud source (I use gcp). If one is down the other is still available and then just resync when service is recovered.
Additionally, I have a machine on my local network that I push to (and that is backed up separately).
Really quick pushes, too :-)
Re: GitHub was down
#67Hopefully it's just them reverting their latest UI changes
Ha!
Re: GitHub was down
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Re: GitHub was down
#69I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072
I used to help maintain Xfce's svn and then git server.
I'm not going to say it was hard, but it was work, and it was work that took time (time that was volunteer free time) away from working on Xfce itself. When I did the final git imports of our svn repos in mid-2009, GitHub had been around for about a year, maybe a year and a half, and wasn't that popular yet. And I suppose back then I had the bull-headed "must self-host because that's the only thing a respectable open source developer should do".
That was a foolish attitude that took time away from the actual goal, which was making Xfce better. If it were today, I would have moved us to GitHub in a heartbeat, or perhaps GitLab (their hosted offering; I wouldn't self-host), instead. I haven't been involved with Xfce (still a happy user though!) in nearly a decade, but I suspect they still self-host out of inertia, with probably a little of that bull-headedness mixed in (that I myself can't claim to be fully free of either).
While GitHub's uptime isn't perfect, it's pretty damn good, and better than most volunteers will get running their git server off a single box someone had racked somewhere in Belgium, which I believe was what we were doing at the time. Tools for that sort of thing are better now, and if I had to self-host today, I'd use EC2 or something like that, and automate the hell out of everything, but it's still a lot more work than just using somebody else's infra.
Re: GitHub was down
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had 2 sd-cards go corrupt (read-only, any writes were lost). Had a mariadb instance running on it as well. It will hold for for some time, but eventually, the card will give up.
Oh no! What will you recommend as a long term solution? I have ordered a Pi 4, should I use an USB Flash Drive / HDD / SATA SSD?
The advice is to buy a quality SD card and backup data that shouldn't be lost to a more reliable location. S3 bucket, a local NAS or something like that. The general idea with Pi's and IoT devices is to act more as input point for data or programmable controllers rather than reliable networked storage or server space.
also Pi4 now supports boot from USB: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb