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Re: GitHub is down

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Post by maccard »

The common complaint is that when github goes down so do issue trackers/project management/docs etc. What are the equivalent alternatives for these systems that are distributed, so tolerant to downtime.

If you are in a situation that you're using a DVCS but relying on centralised everything else, and saying that you're unable to work because your Issue tracker/CI server is down, have you really gained anything over the alternatives?

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by tlrobinson »

git is decentralized, but a bunch of the supporting infrastructure GitHub provides, like Issues and PRs, isn't. It would be neat if that stuff were tracked in a git repository as well.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

chtoric wrote: post #4

You can also follow githubstatus on twitter: https://twitter.com/githubstatus

Interesting that one of the tweets uses identical wording to one of the status messages, and one doesn't. I would have assumed the tweets would be automated, but maybe there's a thinking that the message for the status bar isn't necessarily appropriate for Twitter, so it can be 'overridden'?

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by akerro »

maccard wrote: post #71

The common complaint is that when github goes down so do issue trackers/project management/docs etc. What are the equivalent alternatives for these systems that are distributed, so tolerant to downtime. If you are in a situation that you're using a DVCS but relying on centralised everything else, and saying that you're unable to work because your Issue tracker/CI server is down, have you really gained anything over t…

You can setup gitlab with clones, if one server goes down, second has a copy. You know, git is a distributed system, unlike github.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by thecatspaw »

cytzol wrote: post #52
kchoudhu wrote: post #6

If only we had a version control system that didn't rely on a central hub...

We do, it's called Fossil! http://fossil-scm.org/ Fossil tracks issues (tickets), documentation, and wiki pages at the same level as it tracks code, so when you clone a Fossil repo, everything gets downloaded to your local computer. You can then respond to tickets and perform repo maintenance offline, syncing everything to the server when you're back up. Edit: A few weeks ago I got a job a one-hour train ride away. I…

the parent commentator was joking that git _is_ decentralised, but that we made it centralised again by relying on a small number of hosters (github, bitbucket and others)
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