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I agree. I don't see why Jeff didn't just start a GitHub project himself as a new starting point for the community.

rapind 17y ago
My guess is that this article is a precursor to doing just that. I expect an announcement from Jeff pretty soon about a new markdown project on Github. I don't agree with his point of view in this article, however it does sound like he knows the project pretty well and would be suited to getting it rolling again.
- StrawberryFrog 17y ago
  It's over here: http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/
StrawberryFrog 17y ago
Um, he pretty much did that: http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ By the way, what's with the assumption that github is the one true way? Is it that much better for you? I have code on Github, SourceForge, google code and while Github has some UI goodess, the windows tools for it are quite raw. The others also work fine. If you like DVCS, Sourceforge and Google code both do Mercurial
- pwim 17y ago
  Github's strength is that it allows for incredibly easy collaboration. If you want to make a change to any open source project, you just need to fork it, make changes in your copy, and send a pull request to the original author. Neither Google code nor SourceForge offers such a simple contribution mechanism.
  - pohl 17y ago
    I haven't participated in any Github projects yet, so forgive me if I'm missing something, but isn't what you're describing a part of DVCS (Distributed Version Control Systems) in general, and not Git per se? (and, least of all, GitHub?) Couldn't one do what you're describing with a Google Code project that uses Mercurial? Or at bitbucket.org using Mercurial? Or at launchpad.net using Bazaar? I don't think StrawberryFrog's question has been adequately answered: "what's with the assumption that github is the one true way?..."
    - pjhyett 17y ago
      I don't think anyone said GitHub is "the one true way". I think you'll find more and more people putting code on GitHub, because of the general uptick in contributions when code is hosted there. (disclosure: I work for GitHub)
      - pohl 17y ago
        I don't think anyone said GitHub is "the one true way". I'm pretty sure the question was meant a bit more loosely, not as a direct challenge to someone's post here, but to the general prevalence of a meme that roughly fits that description. I certainly wouldn't suggest grepping for that phrase as a method of getting a feel for its virulence out "in the wild". Instead, look or tacit assumptions, misattribution's of value, and conspicuous omission of alternatives. I guess good, old-fashioned "reading between the lines" is what I'm suggesting. A pretty dramatic illustration popped up on my RSS reader this morning. Someone submitted a HN article with the title "Jeff Atwood's open source contributions", which was nothing but a link to http://github.com/codinghorror http://github.com/codinghorror - which currently shows zero projects. It was quickly flagged here at HN, but it lives on over at Reddit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023696 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023696 The tacit assumption here is that if Jeff has zero repositories at GitHub, then he has made zero open source code contributions. I don't mean to detract from how cool it is that your product is so successful. (Kudos!) But its fans often have a creepy blind spot to alternatives, in my opinion.
        StrawberryFrog 17y ago

My guess is that this article is a precursor to doing just that. I expect an announcement from Jeff pretty soon about a new markdown project on Github. I don't agree with his point of view in this article, however it does sound like he knows the project pretty well and would be suited to getting it rolling again.

StrawberryFrog 17y ago
It's over here: http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/

StrawberryFrog 17y ago

Um, he pretty much did that: http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ By the way, what's with the assumption that github is the one true way? Is it that much better for you? I have code on Github, SourceForge, google code and while Github has some UI goodess, the windows tools for it are quite raw. The others also work fine. If you like DVCS, Sourceforge and Google code both do Mercurial

pwim 17y ago
Github's strength is that it allows for incredibly easy collaboration. If you want to make a change to any open source project, you just need to fork it, make changes in your copy, and send a pull request to the original author. Neither Google code nor SourceForge offers such a simple contribution mechanism.
- pohl 17y ago
  I haven't participated in any Github projects yet, so forgive me if I'm missing something, but isn't what you're describing a part of DVCS (Distributed Version Control Systems) in general, and not Git per se? (and, least of all, GitHub?) Couldn't one do what you're describing with a Google Code project that uses Mercurial? Or at bitbucket.org using Mercurial? Or at launchpad.net using Bazaar? I don't think StrawberryFrog's question has been adequately answered: "what's with the assumption that github is the one true way?..."
  - pjhyett 17y ago
    I don't think anyone said GitHub is "the one true way". I think you'll find more and more people putting code on GitHub, because of the general uptick in contributions when code is hosted there. (disclosure: I work for GitHub)
    - pohl 17y ago
      I don't think anyone said GitHub is "the one true way". I'm pretty sure the question was meant a bit more loosely, not as a direct challenge to someone's post here, but to the general prevalence of a meme that roughly fits that description. I certainly wouldn't suggest grepping for that phrase as a method of getting a feel for its virulence out "in the wild". Instead, look or tacit assumptions, misattribution's of value, and conspicuous omission of alternatives. I guess good, old-fashioned "reading between the lines" is what I'm suggesting. A pretty dramatic illustration popped up on my RSS reader this morning. Someone submitted a HN article with the title "Jeff Atwood's open source contributions", which was nothing but a link to http://github.com/codinghorror http://github.com/codinghorror - which currently shows zero projects. It was quickly flagged here at HN, but it lives on over at Reddit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023696 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023696 The tacit assumption here is that if Jeff has zero repositories at GitHub, then he has made zero open source code contributions. I don't mean to detract from how cool it is that your product is so successful. (Kudos!) But its fans often have a creepy blind spot to alternatives, in my opinion.
      - StrawberryFrog 17y ago