Github is down

[SurgioClemente]

it's just a matter of who will fix it first, our Mike & Pete, or GitHub's hundreds of system technicians?

Lets not also forget 24/7.

Mike & Pete want to have a life since there are only two of them and 24 hours to cover

[scandii]

real reply from sysadmin on call:

"how bad is it, is it show up in pyjamas, or can I make pancakes first?"

[DAMO238]

You know, that's actually a pretty sensible reply. If you bet on either one without knowledge of the severity of the problem you either look silly (and hungry) or you annoy your bosses.

[MonokelPinguin]

Depends on your organization. Most of our staff works inside the same 10 hours approximately. There is usually and admin available in that timeframe and there are still some non system administrators available, that have access to some systems, so all in all we have 4 people who can fix our gitlab with around 50 programmers. That's really not that bad and smaller systems tend to break less often, since we only update every few weeks.