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>GitLab cost everyone a day That's just nonsense. In most cases, the local repo should be more than enough to continue work.
by yAnonymous 10y ago
>GitLab cost everyone a day
That's just nonsense. In most cases, the local repo should be more than enough to continue work.
- seanp2k2 10y agoYeah, kind of defeats the whole D part of DVCS when you centrally-host everything. GitHub is great for creating an open-source watering hole and becoming a de-facto standard for open source project hosting, but bad for mission-critical stuff if you're relying on something like that to be 100% available, especially when using a technology which is designed to be distributed.
- Floegipoky 10y agoIt would have been really cool if GitHub had fully bought into the distributed model and built the wiki/issue tracker/etc such that they were included in the repository, so that they were also decentralized.
- mattcoles 10y agoThe actual problem was with their DB, not the repo storage so I'm not sure what the actual fallout was, but people lost things like issues/merge requests, so I can see how workflow would be interrupted.
- praneshp 10y agoOnly for development right? If you were someone that handled issues for the team, or depended on webhooks triggering builds, you were still blocked. I'm not trying to skewer Gitlab, I host an instance at home. I've also nuked 30% of the ports on our openstack cluster and screwed up everyone's day. I admire the transparency. I just wanted to call out HN's reaction, vs way smaller (technical) issues involving GitHub. But someone did point out downthread that HN's not a hivemind, so there is that.