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Re: Github down, shards lost, repos rolled back
Hey guys,
I am not bothered if we stayed on github or not. I appreciate that its technology fits our needs, but I just think that github is also part of the centralising problem in the web2 scene. In that sense, it is no different to google, fb, or twitter.
I guess that we all have to use these services in one way or another and for whatever reason. It would be good to think of alternatives though should this kind of crash happens again. I know that it can happen to our sites, but we have control over our backups for those.
Yiannis
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Re: Github down, shards lost, repos rolled back
philwareham wrote #314705:
While I’m sympathetic to the calls on this forum to give power back to the people and away from the Silicon Valley big hitters*, I also live in the real world; where project visibility is the difference between a dead project and a one with a future. GitHub rose to the top because it was (and still is) the best integration of version control for collaborative and social coding. Just because it potentially will be owned by Microsoft is moot to me.
Thank you.
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philwareham wrote #314705:
I would absolutely not condone moving off GitHub . . .
You’ve made your stance and devotion to GitHub very clear before… My way or the highway, or whatever. ;)
Rest assured we don’t want you hittin’ the road. You’ve made large and irrefutable contributions to the outward appearance of Txp.
And I didn’t share this news to imply making a change for this project either, it was just a general statement of things. But good to be reminded of where the line is.
While I’m sympathetic to the calls on this forum to give power back to the people I also live in the real world. . .
Haha! Okay.
You heard the man, people, back to the exploitation mines. Ka-ching! ;)
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Re: Github down, shards lost, repos rolled back
philwareham wrote #314705:
I would absolutely not condone moving off GitHub to a self-hosted git solution. To do so would be effectively kill our project in any meaningful sense.
There are ways to do things like Keep in sync your Git repos on GitHub, GitLab & Bitbucket but it seems like a lot of effort for a questionable reward to me.
Decentralizing has always seemed like a cool concept for the super-dedicated… but even if I start out that way, I eventually get bored. I used to play with all sorts of self-hosting things – and don’t really use any of them anymore. While everything I’ve stored on Flickr, Google, Facebook etc. is still there.
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Re: Github down, shards lost, repos rolled back
gaekwad wrote #314697:
Microsoft hasn’t actually acquired GitHub yet, regulatory approval was ongoing when I last checked a week ago.
Just for what it is worth (1¥?): GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft by Peter Bright / ArsTechnica
(no trace of merge conflicts – commented out?)
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Re: Github down, shards lost, repos rolled back
Microsoft quietly rolling out its long-planned phase 2 for GitHub?
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Re: Github down, shards lost, repos rolled back
Destry wrote #318184:
Microsoft quietly rolling out its long-planned phase 2 for GitHub?
Yes – tracking and profiling, one of MS big rising businesses… and a celebration of the gig economy – serfdom is good enough for all those uppity developers.
Michael Tsai has some additional links here
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