Say the Line, GitHub: An Incident Has Been Declared
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A three-panel Simpsons 'Say the line, Bart!' meme. Panel 1: Bart's grinning classmates (Milhouse, Martin, Nelson and others) lean in eagerly with the caption 'SAY THE LINE GITHUB'. Panel 2: Bart, his face covered by the GitHub Octocat logo, slumps at his desk and reluctantly delivers 'AN INCIDENT HAS BEEN DECLARED' - the exact canned phrase from GitHub's status page during outages. Panel 3: the entire classroom erupts in cheering with arms raised, a small Octocat logo on the celebrating crowd. The meme lampoons how routinely GitHub goes down and how its status updates always open with the same formulaic incident-declaration language - to the point that developers treat each outage announcement as a beloved recurring catchphrase (and a free excuse to stop working)
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GitHub's incident template is their most reliable deployment - five nines of availability on the apology, at least
At this point, "incident declared" is GitHub's only workflow with five-nines availability.
Ohno. What happened Comment deleted