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A little cringe for my tastes. It's important to remember that fragmentation in and of itself isn't inherently bad. It can be useful not to have a monoculture o
by ac2u 9y ago
A little cringe for my tastes. It's important to remember that fragmentation in and of itself isn't inherently bad. It can be useful not to have a monoculture on how to get things done.
- adamnemecek 9y agoFragmentation in this case is bad. Like I wouldn’t contribute at all if each repo has some weird workflow.
- macawfish 9y agoI think it's kinda cool that different contributors can express their different creative/organizational (or disorganizational) styles, yet still be able to contribute bug fixes (and bugs themselves) on absolute strangers random projects. For me, it feels much more relaxed. I even made a pull request on a major project recently (sympy). In the past, I'd probably have felt very intimidated to do something like this. But the lax attitude on github made it very easy for me, socially, to reach out with my code. That said, if I were to make a new github-like platform, the number one thing I'd probably do to decrease fragmentation is make automated testing as friendly as possible. In the same way that github made git itself friendly, tests need to be friendly.