Yesterday was my worst day for a very long time. We spent so much time promoting our Qovery Engine to the open-source community and getting those ~3800 stars. I woke up and discovered that we had lost all the stars and forks from our repository. But what happened?
Our team leaked an API key in a Git commit during maintenance and was immediately alerted by GitGuardian. To revert that change and clean up the git history, Pierre decided to switch our repository from public to private until our team fixed it. Never do that! We just lost all the stars and the forks of our repo when switching back to public 😭.
Well, we desperately tried to contact GitHub support. And we receive this response...
We face an unusual situation, and we ask for your help! There are two ways of helping:
I hope this post will help you never make the same error as we did!
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The community is lovely 🤩 Thank you all for your fantastic support. We received support from people all around the world. It is crazy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We almost reached 1k stars again - please keep supporting us with a star ⭐️. GitHub is also considering this incident, and I feel they tried their best to solve our issue.
Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.
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