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GitHub Open Source Guides

33 points by manojlds 10y ago

citrusui 10y ago
I accidentally posted this more than a week ago. Silly me, I forgot that there was only a landing page with the words "Coming Soon". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566857 This site reminds me of https://choosealicense.com https://choosealicense.com, which gives info on what licenses to use for software projects. I suppose the new Open Source Guide will eventually replace choosealicense by this year. Somewhat related -- I'd like to see GitHub refresh their GitHub Help articles. They look like man pages, rather than support documents. Just adding a mobile viewport would make it 2x better. Or, you know, they could open source the entire GitHub Help repo. Perhaps they are actually working on this, and cleaning up the codebase in he meantime.
Grue3 10y ago
I'd take this more seriously if it was written by a company that, you know, open sourced their code.
- WorldMaker 10y ago
  They aren't entirely closed, though: https://github.com/github https://github.com/github Quite a few projects there that they actively contribute to and/or originated.
- manojlds 10y ago
  Atom and Electron are themselves huge contributions.
Chris2048 10y ago
> Your Code of Conduct The word "Code of Conduct" now leaves a bad taste in my mouth as a result of SJW advocacy and abuse surrounding them, of which GH is a prime offender http://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-white-women-2016-2?r=UK&IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-whit... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 Look, for example, at one of their suggestions: > Wherever you can, use prior art. The Contributor Covenant is a drop-in code of conduct that is used by over 40,000 open source projects, including Kubernetes, Rails, and Swift. "The Contributor Covenant", if you follow the link - Refers to GeekFeminism Wiki (a haven for slanted, cherry-picked information) - And a modelviewculture.com article that shares a dislike of meritocracy. This site is also well within SJW territory, e.g. "but “demanding” that people show you “proof” to back up their points.. ..This is a tactic that people who care more about being right than learning use to silence marginalized people or catch them off guard" -- https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/getting-started-in-techs-social-justice-movement https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/getting-started-in-techs... - conflates Merit, with false merit, with the old "Studies have shown.." line. Hence joins GH in demonising the concept of a meritocracy: http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocracy-rug-2014-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocra... - Was started, possibly in anger, by Coraline Ada, who's perspective might be inferred from Opal-Gate: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

33 points by manojlds 10y ago

I accidentally posted this more than a week ago. Silly me, I forgot that there was only a landing page with the words "Coming Soon". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566857 This site reminds me of https://choosealicense.com https://choosealicense.com, which gives info on what licenses to use for software projects. I suppose the new Open Source Guide will eventually replace choosealicense by this year. Somewhat related -- I'd like to see GitHub refresh their GitHub Help articles. They look like man pages, rather than support documents. Just adding a mobile viewport would make it 2x better. Or, you know, they could open source the entire GitHub Help repo. Perhaps they are actually working on this, and cleaning up the codebase in he meantime.

Grue3 10y ago

I'd take this more seriously if it was written by a company that, you know, open sourced their code.

WorldMaker 10y ago
They aren't entirely closed, though: https://github.com/github https://github.com/github Quite a few projects there that they actively contribute to and/or originated.
manojlds 10y ago
Atom and Electron are themselves huge contributions.

Chris2048 10y ago

> Your Code of Conduct The word "Code of Conduct" now leaves a bad taste in my mouth as a result of SJW advocacy and abuse surrounding them, of which GH is a prime offender http://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-white-women-2016-2?r=UK&IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-whit... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 Look, for example, at one of their suggestions: > Wherever you can, use prior art. The Contributor Covenant is a drop-in code of conduct that is used by over 40,000 open source projects, including Kubernetes, Rails, and Swift. "The Contributor Covenant", if you follow the link - Refers to GeekFeminism Wiki (a haven for slanted, cherry-picked information) - And a modelviewculture.com article that shares a dislike of meritocracy. This site is also well within SJW territory, e.g. "but “demanding” that people show you “proof” to back up their points.. ..This is a tactic that people who care more about being right than learning use to silence marginalized people or catch them off guard" -- https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/getting-started-in-techs-social-justice-movement https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/getting-started-in-techs... - conflates Merit, with false merit, with the old "Studies have shown.." line. Hence joins GH in demonising the concept of a meritocracy: http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocracy-rug-2014-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocra... - Was started, possibly in anger, by Coraline Ada, who's perspective might be inferred from Opal-Gate: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941