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>And as far as social media websites go, Github is surely one of the most ethical of them all. Is censoring stuff on behalf of Russian government ethical? [1]
by Grue3 9y ago
>And as far as social media websites go, Github is surely one of the most ethical of them all.
Is censoring stuff on behalf of Russian government ethical? [1]
>Github popularized git in a time when svn and cvs were the standards. Don't forget about those sad, sad times! We are in such a better place now!
Is that a good thing? We could've had a better VCS like darcs!
>They also recognized the power of git to completely lower the bar for participating in open source projects.
Thus lowering the bar of open-source projects.
>"Pull requests"? "Forks"? That stuff didn't exist in the mainstream developer imagination.
Forks have certainly existed since open-source model existed. Pull request is an anti-pattern anyway.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-get-off-russias-blacklist-github-has-blocked-access-to-pages-that-highlight-suicide/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-get-off-russias-blackli...
- flamtap 9y ago> Pull request is an anti-pattern anyway. Would you consider elaborating on this? I'm curious to hear what some negatives of the PR model might be, as I've recently taken a personal interest in dev workflows.
- majewsky 9y agoAlso, pull requests weren't "invented" by Github. Popularized, yes, but not invented.
- macawfish 9y agoI hear you... That's what I was implying, that a lot of people had no idea about this way of contributing before github.