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All the cool kids post code to Github these days, and many open source projects have adopted Github as their main tool for managing the development of their projects. Just recently it was announced that Python is moving their main repository to Github. For the last few hours (nearly 6 hours), Github has been struggling with a major network outage. This was also just noted by The Register. Hopefully Github's engineers will get to the bottom of it. At least with Git, even if Github is down, developers can still work with their code and commit changes to their local repositories and then push later when service is restored. This is but one example of the pitfalls of cloud hosting, though I daresay that Github's uptime is much better than most IT departments' own servers.
Last time similar things happened (Mar 2015), it was blamed on China.
[NOTE: The above was submitted shortly after 1:00 AM (UTC) on 2016-01-28.
GitHub has a status page which, as of this writing, is reporting: "Everything operating normally."
GitHub also posts a list of recent status messages. -Ed.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2016, @03:36PM
Even in a system like that it is advantageous sometimes to call someone 'master'. That is what github does in a nice easy way. I can still pull/push as a master from my local copy into others. But github is a nice way to have a master that is 'always there'.