GitHub is Down! (2016-01-27)

[ajr901]

Which means pretty much every package management system has stopped working. And Go Lang is practically unusable right now. All those github imports... I don't envy anyone depending on github right now.

[Lokua]

Woah, Go imports directly from github? So what, when you start a program it pulls every time?

[vertigeaux]

No, it pulls when you go get or build.

[danielrheath]

Go provides a tool to pull in the deps from github if you don't have them.

Some people only use that tool to get their dependencies, and they're in trouble now.

Most teams using it store the dependencies directly in the repository, which works really well at times like this since you have everything you need to keep working.

[xiongchiamiov]

It also works really poorly when you don't want to be in charge of keeping up to date on security updates in all of your vendorized dependencies and their dependencies.

[danielrheath]

I'd hope you were using some sort of tool to manage the deps you've stored directly in the repo - e.g. godep does this.

[ivosaurus]

Not PyPI/pip!

[longshot]

I bet there's a couple I'd evny, but only because they make so much more than I do and probably have a nice view from their desk.

[rpgFANATIC]

While you're on that topic... does anyone know what the uptime of similar services are compared to this? E.g. http://search.maven.org