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I'm surprised everyone here missed the point by so much. This isn't a status update in the Facebook or Twitter sense. It's akin to the same feature that exists

I'm surprised everyone here missed the point by so much. This isn't a status update in the Facebook or Twitter sense. It's akin to the same feature that exists on Slack and GitLab already. It's useful to mark when you're on holiday or otherwise not working like usual, so teammates know what to expect from you.

azhenley 8y ago
Looking at my GitHub to find out if I am on holiday seems very strange. It makes sense on Slack, an application for communicating with people.
- hombre_fatal 8y ago
  Almost all of my open-source collaborations on Github have been so informal I wouldn't even tell anyone directly that I'm, say, away on vacation in the issues section, but I could see myself setting this status or appreciating that someone else set it. Though I think HN is too old-hat to really understand how anyone could like these sorts of social features, and it's to their own detriment.
  - geoah 8y ago
    Seeing someone's status when you mention them, assign them a ticket, etc is a very welcome addition imo. The "taking time off my side projects" status example is amazingly spot-on as well.
  - underyx 8y ago
    I assume this is targeted more at companies who use GitHub for their internal code, where people collaborate at a much more systematic (and probably higher) pace, where planning time and deadlines are much more prevalent.
- underyx 8y ago
  People use GitHub comments for communication also. Seeing a note next to people's names in a conversation if you cannot expect a timely reply from them is unarguably useful.
- manicdee 8y ago
  Looking at github to see if the maintainer is on holiday seems great to me. Perhaps my pull request isn’t complete junk, and the only reason it hasn’t been merged is that there’s nobody around to merge it?
- marcosdumay 8y ago
  You open an issue, then look and say "hey, this will take a while, the developers are on a holiday, better work on this other thing instead". I pretty much wouldn't use it, but that use case is not worthless.
- ksec 8y ago
  For a lot of people who do their day to day work on Github and nothing more, this is extremely useful.

azhenley 8y ago

Looking at my GitHub to find out if I am on holiday seems very strange. It makes sense on Slack, an application for communicating with people.

hombre_fatal 8y ago
Almost all of my open-source collaborations on Github have been so informal I wouldn't even tell anyone directly that I'm, say, away on vacation in the issues section, but I could see myself setting this status or appreciating that someone else set it. Though I think HN is too old-hat to really understand how anyone could like these sorts of social features, and it's to their own detriment.
- geoah 8y ago
  Seeing someone's status when you mention them, assign them a ticket, etc is a very welcome addition imo. The "taking time off my side projects" status example is amazingly spot-on as well.
- underyx 8y ago
  I assume this is targeted more at companies who use GitHub for their internal code, where people collaborate at a much more systematic (and probably higher) pace, where planning time and deadlines are much more prevalent.
underyx 8y ago
People use GitHub comments for communication also. Seeing a note next to people's names in a conversation if you cannot expect a timely reply from them is unarguably useful.
manicdee 8y ago
Looking at github to see if the maintainer is on holiday seems great to me. Perhaps my pull request isn’t complete junk, and the only reason it hasn’t been merged is that there’s nobody around to merge it?
marcosdumay 8y ago
You open an issue, then look and say "hey, this will take a while, the developers are on a holiday, better work on this other thing instead". I pretty much wouldn't use it, but that use case is not worthless.
ksec 8y ago
For a lot of people who do their day to day work on Github and nothing more, this is extremely useful.