> you're abusing
Cocoapods uses GitHub. No abuse here.
Cocoapods uses GitHub. No abuse here.
Using a GitHub repo as a high traffic code CDN and keeping 5+ cores pegged while being the single biggest consumer of resources across the whole platform could be reasonably defined as an abuse of the service.
Primary definitions on Google:
"abuse" verb: use (something) to bad effect
"abuse" noun: the improper use of something
I don't know... I'm sure they'd get some, CocoaPods has a very large user base after all. But if GitHub laid out the reasons like they laid out the options to start this thread, I think they'd weather the storm fine and diffuse some people who show up to be angry.
I could see why GH would drop them and think they'd be well within their right and in good moral standing in my book. I just don't think they would unless the maintainers became incredibly hostile or proved unable to fix the problem or even band-aid it. GH just seems too culturally invested in making things like this work to a satisfactory conclusion. I have a feeling that the CocoaPods team will be schooled in a lot of things directly from the GitHub team as they work to resolve the performance issues, just look how informative the initial post was.
It's abuse. Wasn't intentional, but at the scale that Cocoapods is running it's abuse.
Discounting the fact that CocoaPods is used by millions of iOS developers...
If CocoaPod was run by a business that was charging those millions of developers for their services, it would be reasonable to expect that business to pay for a real CDN.
They're not, so that's not a reasonable expectation. But it's no more reasonable to make these demands of GitHub. Giving out a free product doesn't mean that you're required to give it out unconditionally, or in unlimited amounts, or forever. In the end, GitHub owns the infrastructure and services it's providing and can do what it wants with it.
Just about every other package manager for every other language (Pip, CPAN, Hackage, etc.) uses its own infrastructure.
I've run tor exit nodes and repo hosting when I worked for ISPs and Datacenters while at the same time shuting customers down who do the same. The difference being that I had that conversation with my boss and said, 'this will violate our normal terms of service but I would like to do this.' The boss is of course more willing to make that concession when he can walk down the hall and say, 'uh, we have extremely high usage and today, can you shut down the repos until we can get another link installed?'
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Everything you need is online but you'd have to find it for yourself and make decisions about the best way for you to do it.