On the plus side, Fable is sooo snappy right now with everyone blocked by GitHub. I've never seen such fast response times.
Incident with Github.com [resolved]
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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#632We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it. What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?
If you're seriously looking at Gitea/Forgejo, I run Fjord, dedicated managed Forgejo, so you don't have to operate it yourself. We can help with migration and runners too. We also run a free public Forgejo instance if you just want to kick the tires first.
Thank you for your work on Fjord! We're currently evaluating it vs. self-hosting, the comparison at https://fjord.sh/compare has been very useful
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#633Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good. That's a gain, not a loss. We're better off without social media psyop manipulations and subscription services bolted onto our code repositories. We're better off without a giant evilcorp getting wholesale access to a large majority of the world's source code.
Personally I never engaged in the community aspect of GitHub. In my eyes it would be a ginormous gain to our colective mental health to not have the expectation to contribute to open source projects for free, or to have "green squares" every day on a public GitHub profile.
This seems to be such a non issue to me, I always ignored this and its strange to hear others feel compelled.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#634Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? The VPS boxes have a fixed monthly fee
He is likely referring to the CI runners. Gitea has their own version of Actions runner. It is very much usable, though currently inferior to GitHub Actions (not always a 1:1 replacement, even though they aim for it to be): https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/ Cost as always depends on your usage, but it will likely be less than your current cost of GitHub Actions.
Thank you. This is exactly what I meant. I work for a large company where our testing budget is massive and most of it goes towards these CI runners. Provisioning enough and consistent compute for testing pipelines sometimes becomes the bane of my existence.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#635Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forgejo actions are by design compatible with GHA. Obviously if you still depend on github to get reusable actions you’re just as dependent on GitHub being up as ever, but you can very easily migrate or mirror GitHub repositories to your forgejo instance and in most cases migrating the CI requires close to no changes. Not all features are supported, but I haven’t had the need to make any changes to my actions, and th…
How about ticketing? We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery. Willing to give it up for better service stability, but wondering if Forgejo offers any kind of native ticketing integrations. I know GitLab does, but I'm not massively impressed with GitLab either.
I know at least part of the API is fully compatible with GitHub so chances are as long as you can specify custom URL base and auth token, there’s a chance linear and other integrations will “just work” too. E.g. I had migrated a custom action which interacted with the PR it was run inside of using the GitHub JS client, and I didn’t have to change a line.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#636https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ They're struggling to maintain a single nine these days.
They're targeting 9 5s of uptime now. 55.5555555%.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#637Almost 3 hours in and still "We are still working to identify the root cause"
Can't even view diffs in the web interface!
I'm out! I am willing to pay ~$5-10/mo for a reliable host I can swap as painlessly as possible. Mostly just building little static sites and little PWAs, no more than 500mb a repo and 10gb total. Need a repo with PRs and issues, where people can register free account and contribute or raise issues, GH actions CI, and pages host to deploy static sites. I don't use more than 100 mins of CI a month. Any recommendations?
edit: GitLab free tier has all I need, but I kind of want to pay and have some kind of reliability (not necessarily an SLA, but). But their next tier is $29/mo, which is too much.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#638There is no reason to be on github anymore.
Your code will used for training and the platform enshitification has been accelerated by Microsoft. It would be wise to move to another platform or even better, host your own Gitlab/Forgejo/Gitea on a vps or at home.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#639Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#640This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself sp…
Luckily we already have a distributed version control system that can take over github: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki I suppose people can use git too if they ever figure out how to send emails from a dedicated client.
We had Launchpad before Github (IIRC).