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We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.
by jclulow 10y ago
We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.
- bdcravens 10y agoEvery time a service like Github goes down, I always swear to myself I'll replace that dependency with a project that takes days, weeks, or months to implement will ensure I'll never have hours or minutes of downtime ever again.
- roblabla 10y agoI run a gogs[0] instance, which is a GitHub clone with great performance characteristics. I use it for both company and personal projects, and we haven't had any downtime. No more productivity drop when github is down :D. I recently discovered another huge dependency I have when coding though : StackOverflow. That's going to be a lot harder to replace though... [0]: https://github.com/gogits/gogs https://github.com/gogits/gogs PS: Yes, I realize the irony in using a github link here...
- dmitry-k 10y ago>No more productivity drop when github is down It could have been the motto of RhodeCode (https://rhodecode.com https://rhodecode.com). Self-hosted repository management not only has a benefit of having one's uptime under control, but also is much more secure.
- 0xmohit 10y agoBlame it on OAuth/OpenID.
- kasparsklavins 10y agoWhy not using google for authentication? Seems like github is down relatively often.
- tehno 10y agoGoogle oauth goes down as well, one of the last ones was even discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526775
- kasparsklavins 10y agoThat was more than 3 months ago. Github goes down more often than that.
- wereHamster 10y agoThis isn't an argument against third-party account management. It's an argument against single points of failure. You can (and many websites which do) support multiple auth providers such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub etc. If you bind your account to multiple of these providers, you can mitigate this risk to a large extent.
- ovi256 10y agoEven with that setup, people normally don't bother to associate more than one set of credentials with their account. So you would have to institute a more-than-one credential practice.