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Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#61

Post by TZubiri »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #53
crest wrote: 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.

I don’t know anyone beyond hobbyist hackers who want to set up and maintain this stuff for themselves. As a professional software developer, I want tools that just work that I can rely on. GitHub 99.99% uptime is something I can rely on.

As a professional software developer, you rely on software written by those hobbyist hackers.

Whenever you do a clone or an npm install or apt get or pip install, etc...

You choose github because your dependencies chose git

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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Post by freewizard »

It was down for ~2 hours. The status website claims "degraded performance", but in reality we get

    git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
Either GitHub didn't know how to communicate, or they were not sure about the real impact.

This is bad.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#63

Post by fragmede »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #53
crest wrote: 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.

I don’t know anyone beyond hobbyist hackers who want to set up and maintain this stuff for themselves. As a professional software developer, I want tools that just work that I can rely on. GitHub 99.99% uptime is something I can rely on.

It was down for ~45 mins according to the linked page page, which would put it at 99.897% uptime for the month, assuming no other downtime.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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Post by TZubiri »

Groxx wrote: post #44
joecool1029 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

But git has built in email features

And it was developed itself by email.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#65

Post by kspacewalk2 »

crest wrote: 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.

Counterpoint: it's a 45 minute outage once in a blue moon. Very small price to pay for the convenience of a centralized VCS with many features that aren't easy to reliably set up in standalone installations.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#66

Post by atonse »

itsjustjordan wrote: post #22

I was going insane doubting my SSH knowledge, stopped short of creating new keys thankfully!

I thought my account was hacked and ssh keys removed. Panicked a little bit and then double checked that my keys were still there.

Then went to github status and calmed down.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#67

Post by lucasoshiro »

Groxx wrote: post #44
joecool1029 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> That's the same as not having one.

That's the way the Linux kernel (the first Git repository) and Git [2] itself manage their codes. There's even a git send-email command, that prepare the commits as patches and send them following the using the correct template.

[1] Linux kernel, IIO subsystem: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/

[2] Git mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/git/

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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Post by freewizard »

crest wrote: 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.

Git is distributed. Distributed system does not guarantee 100% uptime or real time consistency. You can take the whole history with you and push to a different remote.

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

#69

Post by xelxebar »

crest wrote: 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

Not your point, really, but fortunately, git is easily extensible. This in-repo issue tracker is surprisingly feature complete: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug. Anyone else given it a whirl?

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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Post by codetrotter »

theultdev wrote: post #52
tomnicholas1 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

not p2p, but federated: https://forgefed.org (ActivityPub extension) I believe Gitea has support for it, not sure to what extent.

Forgejo, a Gitea fork that I use, has support for it according to the page you linked. But the FAQ for Forgejo mentions it's on the roadmap so not sure how complete ActivityPub support is in Forgejo either.

https://forgejo.org/faq/#is-there-a-roadmap-for-forgejo

I only use my Forgejo instance for myself currently so I haven't looked at the ActivityPub features of it before.

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