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Wow, that's very interesting. I thought GitHub delegates moderation to the repo owners. There was actually a huge debate about this on Reddit caused by Swift m
by Cyph0n 10y ago
Wow, that's very interesting. I thought GitHub delegates moderation to the repo owners.
There was actually a huge debate about this on Reddit caused by Swift merging a rename change PR into master. The Swift team was so excited about the change for some reason that they didn't even run tests before the merge...
- ergo14 10y agoDo you have a link for that? I don't follow swift development and I'm unsure what they actually changed. Rename of what?
- Cyph0n 10y agoChanging variable names using master/slave to leader/follower. Here's my comment from the thread: https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/3veu2t/comment/cxn12gl https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/3veu2t/comment... The rest of the discussion is a good read too.
- kuschku 10y agoAs I mentioned in other subthreads (sadly I can’t edit the original comment anymore, so I have to duplicate content), there is this very famous example of several repos getting banned, and another getting threatened to be banned, for using the word "retard": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118