Re: Github partial failure is slowing us down on the day of the I-D deadline

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 22, 2018, at 22:32, Andrew G. Malis <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Funny (or maybe not so funny) .... when a Github overview was presented at the WG chairs session at IETF 102,  I asked if the IETF should be dependent on resources not under our control and if there was any way to replicate Github functionality on one of our own servers. The answer given was that Github is where the developers are, so that’s where we should be as well, and it shouldn't be a problem as Github is now a major industry resource and dependency, and the new owners would be careful to maintain it as such ...

Yes, and that is all true.

What I was pointing out was that the inevitable failures of a resource we heavily rely on now probably require some flexibility in our own timelines.

Note that the need for flexibility has arisen before, when our own infrastructure failed in some way near the I-D deadline.
(Which is actually more likely as our own infrastructure is stressed during this time, while the github partial failure today was a mere coincidence.)

Grüße, Carsten