Github is down

I wish people would stop posting this stuff. The people who need Github already know, the people browsing HN probably don't need to know.

I'm amazed it's still down, it was down yesterday. Best wishes to the github guys fixing it.

It seems like I need to expand my github-backup program with the ability to cache and later send issue reports to github. It's nice that I have a backup of all the issues of all the projects I'm likely to want to look at, but would be good to also be able to file bug reports.

It's a pity that distributed bug tracking has never fully taken off, despite some excellent tools like SD. Github is in such a good place to do something about that, as they have one of the most commonly used issue trackers, and are all about leveraging and making easy distributed version control.

This is why we keep two git repos - one hosted on our own server that we deploy from, and one on Github that we use for collaboration.

Of course, we can't update some gems if github is down, but we can still deploy patches, and it's pretty trivial to host your own git repository.

The problem is not so much that the source repositories are there, but projects have started using github as a major goto point for their wiki, discussions, and documentation.

This is probably a good example of a product which gets re-defined over time by its users.

... and we can't deploy our software.

Waiting for the green light ... https://status.github.com/

http://xkcd.com/303/ git pull takes longer than expected