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This is cool. I've been looking for an "open relay" to help with collaborating on GitHub-hosted projects that's easier than doing account resets.[1] I'll check

This is cool. I've been looking for an "open relay" to help with collaborating on GitHub-hosted projects that's easier than doing account resets.[1] I'll check it out later. Side note: the Git project is enforcing the Git trademark now.[2] If you want to use "Git" for your branding, you'll need to get approval. 1. https://www.colbyrussell.com/2016/02/13/keeping-a-low-profile-on-github.html https://www.colbyrussell.com/2016/02/13/keeping-a-low-profil... 2. https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw@sigill.intra.peff.net/ https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

analogj 9y ago
hmm, good to know. I'll have to look into that
username223 9y ago
Hm... TIL: > Don't just create one account for each contribution you plan to make through github.com, e.g., so that you don't have to worry about deleting them. Unless you're paying for all those accounts, this is also against the GitHub terms. I've always created throwaway accounts in the rare cases where a maintainer won't accept an emailed patch. As for hosting/mirroring hobby projects, http://repo.or.cz http://repo.or.cz is nice.
f2n 9y ago
>If you have an account and you're participating in a project in any way through github.com, you're part of its social network. What part of GitHub does this person have a problem with? It's entirely unclear what they mean by social network. Is that like, showing the commits you make on your profile? Having a page that shows what you've worked on at all? This seems like good ways to be difficult to work with in open source projects for zero benefit.
- carussell 9y ago
  The person who wrote that post is me. > Is that like, showing the commits you make on your profile? Yes. > Having a page that shows what you've worked on at all? Yes. > This seems like good ways to be difficult to work with in open source projects First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub. Second, I prefer not to publish anything to Facebook or Twitter feeds, either. That's a position that folks seem to find palatable. (In fact, it's one that programmers appear to be disproportionately sympathetic to.) I don't see why it shouldn't remain so if the subject of the conversation is GitHub. > for zero benefit Opting out of the same kinds of personal broadcasting on GitHub isn't "zero benefit" to me. And if it is zero-benefit, it means the service linked here is zero-value. I feel differently. We don't have to agree.
  - f2n 9y ago
    >First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub. I didn't mean to imply it is, but if an open source project finds it easier to use one platform (such as github), trying to subvert that by emailing patches sounds like a very annoying thing to do. It seems similar to submitting pull requests to the Linux Kernel on GitHub, which explicitly requests that you submit patches on the mailing list.
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    - carussell 9y ago
      I'm not here to defend arguments I never made.

analogj 9y ago

hmm, good to know. I'll have to look into that

username223 9y ago

Hm... TIL: > Don't just create one account for each contribution you plan to make through github.com, e.g., so that you don't have to worry about deleting them. Unless you're paying for all those accounts, this is also against the GitHub terms. I've always created throwaway accounts in the rare cases where a maintainer won't accept an emailed patch. As for hosting/mirroring hobby projects, http://repo.or.cz http://repo.or.cz is nice.

f2n 9y ago

>If you have an account and you're participating in a project in any way through github.com, you're part of its social network. What part of GitHub does this person have a problem with? It's entirely unclear what they mean by social network. Is that like, showing the commits you make on your profile? Having a page that shows what you've worked on at all? This seems like good ways to be difficult to work with in open source projects for zero benefit.

carussell 9y ago
The person who wrote that post is me. > Is that like, showing the commits you make on your profile? Yes. > Having a page that shows what you've worked on at all? Yes. > This seems like good ways to be difficult to work with in open source projects First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub. Second, I prefer not to publish anything to Facebook or Twitter feeds, either. That's a position that folks seem to find palatable. (In fact, it's one that programmers appear to be disproportionately sympathetic to.) I don't see why it shouldn't remain so if the subject of the conversation is GitHub. > for zero benefit Opting out of the same kinds of personal broadcasting on GitHub isn't "zero benefit" to me. And if it is zero-benefit, it means the service linked here is zero-value. I feel differently. We don't have to agree.
- f2n 9y ago
  >First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub. I didn't mean to imply it is, but if an open source project finds it easier to use one platform (such as github), trying to subvert that by emailing patches sounds like a very annoying thing to do. It seems similar to submitting pull requests to the Linux Kernel on GitHub, which explicitly requests that you submit patches on the mailing list.
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  - carussell 9y ago
    I'm not here to defend arguments I never made.