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Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by kakwa_ »

Arcuru wrote: post #38

Reminder to all OSS projects: it is extraordinarily easy to setup a simple CI job to keep your code in sync between multiple Forges. And getting email notifications from a second Forge is 0 extra effort. At least give people the option to start moving away from GitHub to contribute to your project. It will, ultimately, be better for the ecosystem.

Syncing the code is the easy and trivial part and your CI job is only solving that. And in my opinion, it's not even that necessary for most projects.

The difficult part is all what's around the code:

* the tickets/PR (including the closed ones)

* the links referencing the project

* the CI setup

* for large projects, the committers permission setup

* if applicable, the push/commit/branch rules

All that will be deeply annoying to migrate on a per project basis, or might get lost.

But that's not even the worst on my opinion. Losing the go-to platform for finding software is (fediverse for software when?).

Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

agartner wrote: post #9

Yeah I think I've finally had enough. I need to start seriously advocating for alternatives since this is starting to impact our business. It's clearly not getting any better.

I'm surprised GitLab isn't getting more attention. Yes, its not a carbon copy, but it is close. Apples and pears instead of oranges.

Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by shevy-java »

fishtoaster wrote: post #57
pier25 wrote: post #11

Github has been having issues since the Microsoft acquisition. https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

This is not to say that things haven't gotten worse over time, but... I don't think that chart shows what it seems like it shows. There were plenty of pre-2018 outages that don't show up there: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1545696000&dateRange=custom&... An alternate interpretation of that chart is "After the microsoft acquisition, they got serious about actually tracking outages." That said, anecdotally, it's fel…

Well, perhaps not as long ago (e. g. from the acquisition), but if you look at the last four weeks or so, just that part alone, you can clearly see that something is not working here. Microsoft is constantly mentioned on Hacker News and not typically in a great, praising light.

Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by scottbez1 »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #47
cromka wrote: post #7

For the record, it's failing silently, too, showing e.g. "There aren’t any open pull requests." even though there are dozens. That's pretty bad, this will definitely mislead people.

Or last week's "If you use merge queue, oopsie, we accidentally destroyed your trunk", which also failed silently.

I was surprised that incident didn’t seem to get as much attention since that was a pretty major data corruption bug, but I guess it was a much smaller scope of impacted repos/customers than a lot of these availability issues?

Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by enraged_camel »

cromka wrote: post #7

For the record, it's failing silently, too, showing e.g. "There aren’t any open pull requests." even though there are dozens. That's pretty bad, this will definitely mislead people.

Even when it does show the PR list, it doest necessarily show all the PRs in the category being viewed. Truly nasty issue.

Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by iLemming »

Wow, this taking unusually long to fix. I suppose the team trying to fix it hit the Claude session limits and now can't do anything until the end of the cooldown and the only person who knows how to fix it without AI is out for a surgery. When the entire generation of people who knew how to fix shit without using AI will retire, what happens then?

Re: GitHub is having issues now

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Post by surgical_fire »

pier25 wrote: post #11

Github has been having issues since the Microsoft acquisition. https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Tbh, for a while GitHub didn't seem to be any more nor less reliable than prior to MS acquiring it.

But in the past year or so, it does feel like outages are becoming commonplace.

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