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?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @02:50AM
Uh oh I guess this is happening after they upgraded Windows 10 and it started eating My Documents...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @03:55AM (4 children)
Would have gone with Meta instead of Breaking News nexus. Half-asleep, I stumbled into this story expecting to see true GitHub chaos.
With that out of the away:
You'll be vindicated if they start deleting everything.
Is there a need to backup SoyletNews code periodically?
Maybe they switched the faulty storage system to FAT?
~blame
Embrace, Extend...
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @06:06AM (2 children)
FAT? This obesity must have been the result of memes. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @07:14AM (1 child)
All filenames will be converted to 8.3 format.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:51AM
butine~1.doc
edmylo~1.doc
ngfile-1.doc
namesu~1.doc
fucker~1.doc
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday October 22 2018, @01:53PM
If you need to backup a DVCS like Git, you're doing it wrong. Every dev should already have a full copy of the repo (and of course each dev should have personal backups of their machines).
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 5, Touché) by requerdanos on Monday October 22 2018, @04:10AM
That's odd. The big trouble on Github was published last June [soylentnews.org] here on Soylentnews.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday October 22 2018, @05:01AM (7 children)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @05:14AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pf89InxwXo [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 22 2018, @10:32AM (5 children)
Github having problems is a horrible thing. I was all dragging ass when I woke up this morning but eagerly desiring to starting a coding push on the huge mess of perl that is rehash. Then I read this and was greatly saddened. Now I'll have to spend the morning drinking coffee and watching my fishing poles at the lake.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @06:45PM (2 children)
We use github classroom, and many of my fellow students were freaking out because project submissions were due 12:30 today.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday October 22 2018, @09:08PM (1 child)
Do like Buzzy...don' worry, just go fishing.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:35AM
I know, right? I mean anything that isn't finished today is still going to be not finished tomorrow and anything that's broken today will likely still be broken tomorrow. No point in worrying over not getting to work on it today.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:39AM (1 child)
I've embarked on a project to determine the correct ratio of grounds to water to suit my taste. The quantities I used before this particular pot were rather too strong.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:40PM
I generally go with half a cup of grounds to twelve cups of water for standard ole drip coffee and play it by ear for espresso-based beverages but your mileage may vary.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Monday October 22 2018, @05:54AM (4 children)
Since the status page on a REVISION CONTROL SYSTEM suggests I may get "inconsistent results", I'm not so sure I would trust a read access either.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @06:01AM (3 children)
Git is quite corruption resistant. Unless you are worried about not getting the most up to date data, you should be fine.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Hyper on Monday October 22 2018, @08:14AM (2 children)
https://xkcd.com/1597/ [xkcd.com]
oblig xkcd
(Score: 3, Interesting) by goodie on Monday October 22 2018, @02:38PM (1 child)
Finally I don't feel alone! ;-).
Seriously, as much as I can appreciate Git over other source control systems and their issues, the process is sometimes beyond convoluted in my opinion...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @02:55PM
I am still working out the kinks
So far some things just work. Others are frustrating.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Monday October 22 2018, @08:39AM
from embrace to extinguish, bother not with extending.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @09:33AM
by a Microsoft.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday October 22 2018, @02:54PM
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....."
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Funny) by ilsa on Monday October 22 2018, @07:19PM
Geez, Microsoft just bought the thing and they've *already* broken it. I think this must be some kind of record.