If you hear lots of grumbling in coffee shops this morning, GitHub's outage may be why.
  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6 days

    There are downsides to being unemployed for sure, but not knowing that Github is down until I see it on social media is quite an upside 😌

    I’ll pour out a bit of coffee for all those who still have to care about these things o7

    • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
      6 days

      I did not notice until I saw it on a site. Ah, if only the savings would last forever, so that I do not have to return to the workforce.

  • floorjam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    it went down literally half an our after our company announced we would also bring our CI Pipeline over to GitHub…

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    I decided against using Github for my personal stuff since it’s owned by Microsoft.

    I can’t help but feel a little bit smug every time it shits the bed nowadays.

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comEnglish
    6 days

    It’s frightening how the OSS ecosystem mostly centralized around GitHub. I’ve been trying all afternoon to debug issues with some libraries and most search results linked to GitHub… which spat out errors every single time.

    • flubba86@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 days

      “we built this decentralized federated source code control system!”, great let’s get everyone to put all their code in one central location.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6 days

        Owned by Microsoft. The ones who have tried to destroy the core concept of open source for multiple human generations now.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 days

        Only partially helpful. For me, when I open up issues archive.org often only has the first post in the thread. Often the stuff is months outdated.

        Don’t get me wrong, the Wayback Machine is an incredibly amazing piece of tech and I use it all the time. But it’s a less-than-satisfactory replacement for a working Github.

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
    6 days

    Lol, I recently interviewed with a company who thought it was a good idea to put their entire codebase and CI into github. They didnt see a problem with it…

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6 days

      I mean, internal CI and version control systems go down too. Like, if GitHub has substantially worse downtime than an whatever internal system one runs, fair enough.

      Git’s distributed, so downtime isn’t usually a huge deal compared to a non-distributed version control system.

      I think that the largest issue is actually that GitHub provides a centralized commit review system (and, to be fair, so are many internal systems) that one uses to review pull requests. Like, a CI run being deferred usually isn’t a huge deal. Version control is probably distributed these days. But code review is something that you’d like to keep going.

      If you do code review in email or something, it’s distributed. You can keep working. If your email server goes down, it might prevent new messages from reaching other users, but all of the review requests you have can be worked on and any review you’ve already received can be read. But if people are using some centralized Web-based code review system, and that goes down, then that kinda halts a lot of stuff.

      Same centralized problem for issue tracking.

      EDIT: I’ve never used a distributed issue tracker, but apparently they are indeed out there:

      https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

      EDIT2: A lot of issue trackers involve people attaching large files to issues, so there might be some fundamental scalability issues in that regard for distributed operation; might need to centralize that part. That being said, I’d rather temporarily lose access to just a large-file-hosting server than to that and all of the other issue data.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6 days

      Ours has been there for over a decade, It’s not ideal, but moving it all is an undertaking. Over the years we’ve created alternative methods to work around the CI when it’s down, Ideally we’d host our own

  • Haley@lemmus.orgEnglish
    6 days

    This is why we should all migrate over to Codeberg for sure

    • Schlemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6 days

      I selfhost some forgejo instances but I can’t say I’m more reliable than github

  • Lexam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    This is why I don’t use GitHub. Well that and I don’t code.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    Github seems to bug out quite a lot. More than once I had to reload the page a handful of times until my browser deemed it safe.