To be fair Microsoft haven’t done as much integration with their eco system; such as integrating it with Azure DevOps as they could. And long may it continue.

Not a fan of defending GitHub, but TBH them launching GithubActions made me abandon all other CI platforms I was using in the past, I even left GitLab just for that.

Not sure what you’re intending to show.

That page shows 99.5%+ uptime across all 11 of the services provided.

To do that at a small company world cost significant money.

To have it integrated and cheap for all those small shops is very valuable to them.

It shows 98.3% for actions for me

https://ibb.co/PsMkpJFY

99.5% uptime is nothing significant...

Yeah but it's sufficient for the largest part of CI needs. Most people are making CRUD apps, 6 9s reliability is not required there.

not really, I've ran into Github Action downtime and you can't run tests or anything so either you wait or you just let stuff merge

and again don't know how this is acceptable in 2026, for a paid CI service

and I'm not talking about 6 9s, I mean, 99.5% is terrible

A 99.5 means over one year you will need to wait about 40 hours total for the issue to be solved. What kind of high pressure crud app are you making where this is a problem?

we have technology, 99.5% is embarrassing for a company like Microsoft

it's 2026, not 2016

and that 40 hr may be that over 40 days you just have to randomly stop working if you depend on GHA for something

and why are other services not struggling like this?

I never said I paid, I was referring to my opensource repos.

Oh yes I can totally believe they use public and private repos for their model training. It is surprising they aren’t ahead of the curve for AI coding like Claude code, codex or cursor because of this.

I very much doubt that. Imagine the PR nightmare and potential liability if someone managed to extract from the model credentials in a private repository.

Explain to me how using OPEN source for training is theft? I've (admittedly skimmed) quite a few licenses, but I really dont remember anyone restricting reading/indexing source code?

MIT license includes: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The argument is that AI models trained on open source should include the copyright info for all projects blended into the weights. And since they don’t, it violates the terms of the license.

You don't relinquish copyright by using a FOSS license though, right?

Github hasn't changed that much overall.

The copilot service and the training on open source would be the same if Microsoft hadn't bought GitHub, it would just be branded differently.

Have you seen github outages?

Well a lot of the outages are copilot which doesn't change my argument that already holds copilot separate.