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My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.

• Aissen 9y ago
  If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…
  • wooter 9y ago
    but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?
    • saagarjha 9y ago
      The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.
      • coldcode 9y ago
        We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.
        • sytse 9y ago
          I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab Enterprise Edition should scale fine to 100,000's of users. Are you in touch with our support about this?
        • dblessing 9y ago
          Sorry to hear you're having trouble scaling GitLab. We have many organizations running GitLab and successfully scaling to 10's of thousands of users, and GitLab.com which is the largest GitLab installation. As a GitLab Enterprise customer our support team is happy to help you review your scaling problems and resolve them. Please submit a support request at https://support.gitlab.com https://support.gitlab.com.
        • coldcode 9y ago
          O crap I meant to say GitHUB Enterprise. That's what has trouble. We also have Gitlab Enterprise and that's fine. Sadly for reasons internal we are mostly stuck with GitHub E.
          • sytse 9y ago
            I'm glad to hear that GitLab is working fine for you. And I'm sorry that you feel stuck with GitHub Enterprise. Please know that GitLab has a high fidelity importer https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_project... and our support team has a lot of experience with assisting people with the migration if the migration is the problem.
      • wooter 9y ago
        thats why i asked what his favorite was. just curious to see what the feature differences would be
  • hdhzy 9y ago
    The VCS is decentralized but they made the process centralized.
  • scribu 9y ago
    The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github. I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.
    • pyre 9y ago
      Fossil SCM
    • Osiris 9y ago
      https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...
      • scribu 9y ago
        Yep, that was the one.
    • WorldMaker 9y ago
      There's also plenty of DIY distributed issue tracker tools to keep issue tracking inside a git repo (often as yaml+markdown). I'm still surprised a good one hasn't stepped up with direct GitHub issue/project tool integration+sync, but that should certainly be a possibility.
    • fs111 9y ago
      the linux kernel development works just fine w/o github.
      • paulddraper 9y ago
        They use self-hosted git repo and bugzilla. It's not exactly less of a point of failure.
      • mdellabitta 9y ago
        I think the spf there is Linus' email account, right?
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