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Re:GitHub Outage by maxcan on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:51AM (#32735834)
Github outages are the bored engineer's equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you were in school, full of unbridled joy.

For engaged, happy engineers its the equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you are grown up and have to go dig your car out of the snow and its a normal day just with extra steps.

Re:GitHub Outage by ramigb on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:17AM (#32736079)
I can be both bored and engaged, don't test me buddy /s
Re:GitHub Outage by lysergia on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:20AM (#32736118)
> equivalent of getting a surprise snow day

Not if you self-host Git

Re:GitHub Outage by capableweb on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:24AM (#32736160)
Self-hosting Git is easy, throw up a ssh server and point git to it.

Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder. Which is why they are building out all of those things, they don't want people to move to other places so easily.

Hopefully these constant outages makes more developers pissed off that issues are not stored in git as well, and start working on tooling to solve this shitty problem once and for all.

P2P/Local First software for everyone! \o/

Re:GitHub Outage by chrisseaton on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:25AM (#32736175)
> Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder.

You can self-host the whole of GitHub can’t you?

Re:GitHub Outage by capableweb on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:41AM (#32736316)
As far as I know, you can self-host an enterprise version of GitHub, but it'll still be available from one location (the server you deploy it on). I cannot run it locally and federate with my colleagues instances for example, just like I can with Git.
Re:GitHub Outage by lionkor on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:27AM (#32736193)
gitlab
Re:GitHub Outage by capableweb on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:28AM (#32736207)
GitLab is not P2P/Local First software like Git itself. It suffers from exactly the same problem as GitHub, reliance on a central server (which is run either by the company making the product, or by your own team).

What I'm talking about is being able to access everything like issues, wikis, PRs and whatever, even when you're 100% offline.

Re:GitHub Outage by lionkor on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:38AM (#32748867)
fair, i'd love that!
Re:GitHub Outage by naikrovek on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:54AM (#32735860)
Not really. I'd rather be getting stuff done. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit: oopsie I misread.

Re:GitHub Outage by mort96 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:01AM (#32735927)
Would you characterise yourself as a bored engineer?
Re:GitHub Outage by naikrovek on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:07AM (#32735977)
today I might characterize myself as someone who made a mistake while reading a comment, and replied to the mistaken understanding instead of the intended one.