Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash

Re:Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash by yagni3 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:05PM (#13546734)

Ehh. Git is decentralized, if you're that worried about uptime, self host a git-http/GitLab/Gitolite/Gogs/Gitea/(getmydrift) etc instance and call it a day. Or do GitHub if you want, but even Github has outages and can't 100% guarantee your data.

If you're afraid the non-git metadata could be lost, use something like git-appraise or get off the cloud or onto a separate cloud and get some bug tracking software or something.

I don't think the actions they took really showed vigilance or good form, but the transparency and honesty says a lot about the company IMHO. I also don't think stomping on them excessively does anyone any good.

Edit: Also, GitLab's business model is different than most in the space. Since even private repos are free, GL only makes money on their enterprise clients. Free private repos are essentially leeches, bloodletting for mindshare. Shouldn't ask for too much.

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Re:Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash by rxminus on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:35PM (#13546945)

Yes git is decentralised...but if your entire build & docker image hosting hangs too it it does play an integral role in day-to-day coding. Especially if you need to pull some changes you made late at night on a different computer to continue work. I'm not trying to bash GitLab...if anything I was trying to write a homage. I'm genuinely sad to leave.

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Re:Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash by dpc_pw on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:59PM (#13547431)

You should not have an important SPOF, that is not-self hosted and especially not on best-effort, free service. Switching to GitHub changes nothing.

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