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If anyone in github is listening: Can you please add: 1. Bulk team adding/editing. From https://github.com/orgs/[org]/people https://github.com/orgs/[org]/peo

If anyone in github is listening: Can you please add: 1. Bulk team adding/editing. From https://github.com/orgs/[org]/people https://github.com/orgs/[org]/people, add the ability to select multiple people and add them on a team. I do this via a script, but I don't like doing it that way. Also, a better way of finding who is NOT in a specific team, i.e. filter by users who are not in the "staff" team. 2. A special team which has everyone in it by default 3. A way of contacting everyone in a team without resorting to adding everyone to a specific team, giving that team write access, creating an issue and/or @mentioning everyone.

masklinn 9y ago
You probably want to mail support@github.com if you have feature requests for them.
EGreg 9y ago
Why do we have to be grateful like serfs for any favors the masters bequeath to us? Git is decentralized. Why do you need github? Everything can be summed up with the word "social". Permissions, connections between people, notifications, contacts, etc etc. Social is not decentralized today. Even though money already is, publishing is, version control is. That's the reason we accept such posts as "wow thanks". Imagine if something like Wordpress existed which let you run your own social network and easily put together the exact permission rules you need for your organization. Let you do everything in that post, but open source and free w plugins? I thought back in 2011 there should be something like this. So I'm building it: https://qbix.com/platform https://qbix.com/platform Don't beg, just install it and configure your own social network to do what your organization needs.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Frankly, the hostility in your post just puts me off trying your platform. Learn from http://harmful.cat-v.org http://harmful.cat-v.org - try adding some humor. Decentralized or not, someone has to actually build the features, and that's still a reason to thank them. A framework is cool and all, but doesn't actually solve the problem, it just makes the job easier.
  - EGreg 9y ago
    You miss the point of my comment. When facebook says "now you can manage the privacy defaults of your posts" many people feel relief and gratitude that they did that. Many of us don't even realize how ridiculous that is. It's like serfs thanking their feudal lords for doing something in a one-size-fits-all way they could have easily done themselves if the platform had been decentralized. The same thing with the App Stores and other things. So thankful that our latest version wasn't rejected for competing with Twitter or Apple or whatever. Yes, they built it. But that's phase 1. It's way better when it's an open source platform and no one gatekeeper to deal with. Are you grateful you can wear a blue shirt? Or that now finally they'll play your song on a radio? It's not about hostility towards github or anyone in particular. It's just pointing out (using the vernacular many geeks use to exaggerate a point) the ridiculousness of "we finally let you have sub groups" and "ok but please please add this feature". Bitcoin will decentralize money and you won't be grateful that a bank lets you pay someone without a problem. The web decentralized publishing and you aren't begging someone to please publish your story with a video so your friends can read it. It's just a market. Same here. Centralization in social holding back progress by a lot, and preventing people from getting things done in the real world, and leads to business models to suck people into spending more time posting cat videos and commenting on politics and exacerbates their echo chambers until they hate each other, because they think they only have two choices for President etc etc. And what's the next big thing? VR. Suck them into even more virtual reality and monetize their time. Well, I could be a little mad -- not at the players but the rules of the game. Decentralize. Change the rules. Don't like my platform? Use another! But host your own social network! You want more geek-vitriol? Here it is from a famous source: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
    - type0 9y ago
      > and leads to business models to suck people into spending more time posting cat videos It's the new opium for the masses
    - icebraining 9y ago
      You're actually preaching to the choir, I don't disagree at all with your point, I just don't think it applies here. Look, at my job we self-host Gitlab CE. It's 100% Free Software and we could implement all the features we want without asking them a damn thing. Yet I still have asked them to "please add this feature". It has nothing to do with being Free Software or not, but with asking them to do actual work in implementing the feature.

masklinn 9y ago

You probably want to mail support@github.com if you have feature requests for them.

EGreg 9y ago

Why do we have to be grateful like serfs for any favors the masters bequeath to us? Git is decentralized. Why do you need github? Everything can be summed up with the word "social". Permissions, connections between people, notifications, contacts, etc etc. Social is not decentralized today. Even though money already is, publishing is, version control is. That's the reason we accept such posts as "wow thanks". Imagine if something like Wordpress existed which let you run your own social network and easily put together the exact permission rules you need for your organization. Let you do everything in that post, but open source and free w plugins? I thought back in 2011 there should be something like this. So I'm building it: https://qbix.com/platform https://qbix.com/platform Don't beg, just install it and configure your own social network to do what your organization needs.

icebraining 9y ago
Frankly, the hostility in your post just puts me off trying your platform. Learn from http://harmful.cat-v.org http://harmful.cat-v.org - try adding some humor. Decentralized or not, someone has to actually build the features, and that's still a reason to thank them. A framework is cool and all, but doesn't actually solve the problem, it just makes the job easier.
- EGreg 9y ago
  You miss the point of my comment. When facebook says "now you can manage the privacy defaults of your posts" many people feel relief and gratitude that they did that. Many of us don't even realize how ridiculous that is. It's like serfs thanking their feudal lords for doing something in a one-size-fits-all way they could have easily done themselves if the platform had been decentralized. The same thing with the App Stores and other things. So thankful that our latest version wasn't rejected for competing with Twitter or Apple or whatever. Yes, they built it. But that's phase 1. It's way better when it's an open source platform and no one gatekeeper to deal with. Are you grateful you can wear a blue shirt? Or that now finally they'll play your song on a radio? It's not about hostility towards github or anyone in particular. It's just pointing out (using the vernacular many geeks use to exaggerate a point) the ridiculousness of "we finally let you have sub groups" and "ok but please please add this feature". Bitcoin will decentralize money and you won't be grateful that a bank lets you pay someone without a problem. The web decentralized publishing and you aren't begging someone to please publish your story with a video so your friends can read it. It's just a market. Same here. Centralization in social holding back progress by a lot, and preventing people from getting things done in the real world, and leads to business models to suck people into spending more time posting cat videos and commenting on politics and exacerbates their echo chambers until they hate each other, because they think they only have two choices for President etc etc. And what's the next big thing? VR. Suck them into even more virtual reality and monetize their time. Well, I could be a little mad -- not at the players but the rules of the game. Decentralize. Change the rules. Don't like my platform? Use another! But host your own social network! You want more geek-vitriol? Here it is from a famous source: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
  - type0 9y ago
    > and leads to business models to suck people into spending more time posting cat videos It's the new opium for the masses
  - icebraining 9y ago
    You're actually preaching to the choir, I don't disagree at all with your point, I just don't think it applies here. Look, at my job we self-host Gitlab CE. It's 100% Free Software and we could implement all the features we want without asking them a damn thing. Yet I still have asked them to "please add this feature". It has nothing to do with being Free Software or not, but with asking them to do actual work in implementing the feature.