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0 pointsColinWright12y ago0 comments

  > if you're waiting for [service] to come up in order
  > to get something done, there's not much better to do.

I don't understand this - it's a distributed document control system. You can continue to work on your local repo - why is it that you can get nothing done? Perhaps I just don't understand your workflow, but why is github the site essential to your progress?

It would be useful to me if someone could explain how their workflow requires github to be available, because it would seem that they are using facilities or features of which I am unaware.

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wakeless12y ago· 2 in thread

Today it went down, just as I needed our CI server to do a pass. Which is fine, grab a coffee, then I sat down and thought, I'll catch up on some code reviews.

Thankfully, it wasn't long till it came back up.

ColinWrightOP12y ago

Thanks for the reply, but if your CI[0] server does passes reasonably often, why would one of them not happening then prevent you from continuing to work? It runs in passes, so it's not really continuous, and I'd expect it to survive running slightly less often, or slightly more irregularly.

Do you stop work when it runs? I don't understand your workflow that implies you have to stop while a process that runs often fails to run on one occasion.

I remain confused.

[0] I assume this is "Continuous Integration"

scott_s12y ago

I think the idea is that they just so happened to at a point in their workflow when they needed GitHub to be up. For some reason, wakeless needed to know the results of the CI server. There aren't many such points for people, but if you have a large enough sample of people, some of them will be at such points at any given moment of time.

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ColinWrightOP12y ago· 1 in thread

Still no one is explaining a workflow that requires github to be up.

This was a genuine question. I have no doubt that my usage is different from yours, and I appreciate the opportunity to learn. Perhaps I can do things better, and you can be the one to teach me.

I don't care about the downvote(s), but I do care about missing an opportunity to do things better, or more effectively, or more efficiently, or something. Clearly people here use github differently from me, and I'd appreciate the opportunity to learn.

derefr12y ago

Presumably, interacting with Github's hosted issue tracking, editing your project's documentation on the wiki, submitting pull requests, doing a code-review of someone else's pull request before accepting it--any "clerical" project task other than writing and committing code, really.

I was speaking more generally than just Github's case with my original comment, though; for example, it's really obvious that people talk about Reddit being down on HN because when Reddit is down, they're A. bored, and B. want to talk about Reddit being down. They'd do that on Reddit if they could ...but it's down.

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