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An open source project is a community, but GitHub shouldn't be. Open source projects use lots of tools and services to help keep the community together. Versi
by cameldrv 10y ago
An open source project is a community, but GitHub shouldn't be. Open source projects use lots of tools and services to help keep the community together. Version control, issue tracking, IRC/Slack, mailing lists, web hosting. Each of these are tools that the actual community (the open source project) uses. The project's leaders are free to adopt (or not) codes of conduct, licenses, and community norms. Some communities can be welcoming to newbies, others may require that one prove themselves before they are fully accepted. It's not the place for a site like github to mandate community norms for open source projects. Github itself is only one small piece of what makes an open source project tick, and they are overreaching with trying to control open source projects that happen to choose them to handle version control.