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posted by martyb on Monday October 22 2018, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the why-yes,-I-*am*-an-Adventure-Grandmaster dept.

I first learned of GitHub having problems from a story on Hacker News. Since SoylentNews hosts its code there, I was curious as to what was going on. If it was indeed down, I wanted to pass the word on to the rest of the SoylentNews community.

The comments on that story suggested that GitHub read access was working okay (and a very quick check on my part of our code there confirmed that), but attempts to make changes are failing.

That's strange.

Then I took a look at GitHub's Status Page, where I found something even stranger... how they phrased their status messages! Take a look:

22:42 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.
22:23 Eastern Standard Time
We are continuing to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.
22:01 Eastern Standard Time
We continue work to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.
21:41 Eastern Standard Time
We are continuing to work to migrate a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
21:22 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to work to migrate a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
21:02 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to migrate a data storage system in order to restore full access to GitHub.com.
20:43 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
20:23 Eastern Standard Time
We're continuing to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
20:05 Eastern Standard Time
We're failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
19:43 Eastern Standard Time
We're investigating problems accessing GitHub.com.
19:13 Eastern Standard Time
We are investigating reports of service unavailability.
19:09 Eastern Standard Time

Seems to me someone on GitHub once spent a little too much time exploring mazes in Colossal Cave. Will they be able to fix the problem before they run out of permutations?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday October 22 2018, @02:54PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday October 22 2018, @02:54PM (#751986) Journal

    I wonder who came up with having to update system status every 20 minutes. Not saying it's warranted or it isn't it isn't for the stuff I've got on there, but others MMV.

    At least the varying nature of the messages strongly suggest it was an actual human delivering the updated wording and not a mechanical "Please continue to hold and the next available....."

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