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Title    Breaking News: GitHub Currently in Read-Only Mode -- Status Messages Cribbed from Colossal Cave
Date    Monday October 22 2018, @02:45AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the why-yes,-I-*am*-an-Adventure-Grandmaster dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/10/22/0244219

martyb writes:

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?


Original Submission

Links

  1. "martyb" - https://soylentnews.org/~martyb/
  2. "Hacker News" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271180
  3. "GitHub's Status Page" - https://status.github.com/messages
  4. "Colossal Cave" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure#Maze_of_twisty_little_passages
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29678

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