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Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by taude »

petcat wrote: post #74
taude wrote: post #68

git was designed as a distributed vcs for high-latency connected developers with plenty of ability to work offline. I don't think I've really been impacted by any of the outages. Maybe I wait an extra hour to merge a feature or something, in which case I actually get to eat lunch and browse HN, doesn't feel quite as catastrophic for me, as some of you.

The problem is that people design their entire development and release lifecyle to be dependent on Github. A lot of times they can't even push code hotfixes to production without it. It's a terrible SPOF for a lot of engineering orgs.

The hotfixes makes sense.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by justinrubek »

bob1029 wrote: post #75

I've been working on a self-hosted alternative to GitHub and I am curious what HN finds to be the most important features. I think Code, Issues and PRs are the critical aspects, but I don't know what typical workflows look like for others these days. It seems like there are some teams that have figured out a way to turn GH into a labyrinth of CI/CD actions that allegedly produces a ton of business value, but I don't…

I don't think it's the features that are lacking from the alternatives. It's the network effects.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by iN7h33nD »

bob1029 wrote: post #75

I've been working on a self-hosted alternative to GitHub and I am curious what HN finds to be the most important features. I think Code, Issues and PRs are the critical aspects, but I don't know what typical workflows look like for others these days. It seems like there are some teams that have figured out a way to turn GH into a labyrinth of CI/CD actions that allegedly produces a ton of business value, but I don't…

Have you seen: https://forgejo.org/

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by CoderJoshDK »

With continued reliability issues and the CEO stepping down, now feels like such an opportune time for a competitor to start taking market share. I sure am rooting for it!

For the longest time, I thought that there was absolutely no way for some of these corner stone companies (slash tech) to be toppled. And I’m very impressed with their ability to destroy consumer trust!

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by __natty__ »

petcat wrote: post #70
everfrustrated wrote: post #42

Enterprise customers, remember to email your sales rep and ask for them to report on their contracted uptime with you that you are allowed to do as per contract. They wont do this unless you ask hoping you don't notice the outages. It creates lots of internal pain - they have no automation internally for reporting on this. This is the only way anything will ever change. GitHub is _easily_ the most unreliable SaaS pro…

> GitHub is _easily_ the most unreliable SaaS product. Some of us are stuck using Atlassian and BitBucket and it is by far worse in every way.

Agree, atlassian products are much worse in terms of reliability.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by gazook89 »

bob1029 wrote: post #75

I've been working on a self-hosted alternative to GitHub and I am curious what HN finds to be the most important features. I think Code, Issues and PRs are the critical aspects, but I don't know what typical workflows look like for others these days. It seems like there are some teams that have figured out a way to turn GH into a labyrinth of CI/CD actions that allegedly produces a ton of business value, but I don't…

Any time I see this topic brought up, two things are always mentioned: the "hub" part, meaning the discoverability and social aspect, and the "network effect" of having everyone use a single service (so everyone already has an account and they don't have to create additional account for every self-hosted project.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by lucb1e »

jeltz wrote: post #59
dzogchen wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much simpler. Much less features. Completely open source and not only the core.

Any important feature from Gitlab you feel is missing? I personally think Gitlab has way more features than I need but maybe there are some important ones I would miss.

I use git pretty basically, just as a revision system where the hosted version has some nice-to-haves on top like rendering markdown, permalinking bits of code to people, and being able to open tickets and contribute code. Gitea/Forgejo/Codeberg does all of that and I haven't run into any missing features. It's also a lot easier to navigate than GitLab, but I'll admit that's probably just a matter of me not being used to it

Having self-hosted Gitea after considering GitLab, I can also say that the resource consumption of Gitea is a tiny fraction of that of GitLab's. I don't get the impression that their employees care about self hosters beyond as a gateway for enterprise sysadmins to get it running quickly before doing some big installation

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