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I find it difficult to imagine doing extensive web work (Rails, Django, PHP, JS) without ever touching GitHub. Surely, in the course of your daily work using g

I find it difficult to imagine doing extensive web work (Rails, Django, PHP, JS) without ever touching GitHub. Surely, in the course of your daily work using giant open source projects you'll file a bug, comment on an issue or even submit a pull request. Most large applications are built off of dozens, or hundreds, of open source libraries—all of which have bugs at various times. I don't expect all web developers to have side-projects or libraries, but I would expect they'll interact with open source projects in some way. This way of thinking clearly doesn't apply in more closed source worlds like games, finance or giant enterprise—but it certainly holds for startup/web work in my experience.

harpastum 10y ago
It would be awesome if that was something everyone was able to do, but often company policy makes it really hard. I've worked at multiple companies where the red tape involved in having my contribution merged into a public repo was such a pain that it just wasn't worth it.
QuantumGravy 10y ago
My day job involves extensive web work. I've found plenty I could contribute, but I'm at an oldschool corp. that just isn't going to approve open source contributions on company time, using company resources and source code. On the flip side, they also don't care what I program outside work. It's just that my personal projects aren't web related and don't lend themselves to being open sourced.