[gimenete]

I worked there for 3 years and yes GitHub development happens on github.com. Of course there’s ways to deploy and rollback changes while the site is down but that’s very unusual. The typical flow happens in github.com and uses the regular primitives everybody uses: prs, ci checks, etc.

The pipeline for deploying the monolith doesn’t happen in GitHub Actions though but in a service based in jenkins.

Fun fact: playbooks for incidents used to be hosted in GitHub too but we moved them after an incident that made impossible to access them while it lasted.

[coryrc]

> that made impossible to access them

Couldn't they just be checked out by cron on any number of local machines hosting Apache?

[gimenete]

I don't remember clearly where we moved them. It was probably to something owned by Google (because GitHub uses Google Workspaces) or Microsoft (for obvious reasons).