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Yeah, I was totally with the author for steps 1-7, but I have problems with the last four steps. Personally, I think step 9 shows exactly where the author is a
by superfrank 8y ago
Yeah, I was totally with the author for steps 1-7, but I have problems with the last four steps.
Personally, I think step 9 shows exactly where the author is a bit out of touch. He seems to see GitHub as a sort of code social media site where statistics about the repository are just as valuable as the code itself. In some cases (especially open source), I can see that being kind of true, but I think GitHub gets far more use as a private internal collaboration tool in the work place. In that case, the code itself is far more valuable than anything else and deserves the majority of the screen space.
- henryfjordan 8y agoI think, even as an internal collaboration tool, the faces of who has been touching a repo recently are very valuable. Who do I go to for help, or to get a PR approved, or to request a new feature?
- zwkrt 8y agoLook at last commit, look up username, email. Where did their face come into it?
- jonnycomputer 8y agoI find the commit messages confusing, but find the last changed dates more useful (probably because of overly large mega-commits)
- mitchtbaum 8y agoYeah, that second line of development went in another direction with different guiding principles. If the first set of changes can get positive reviews here, maybe they'll get merged. The second line could benefit from some questions about its targets and see how they align/diverge with the aims of a common vcs UI model. I wonder how this matches other UIs. In any event, a roadmap would help so we could put this in a broader view of where and how it fits in to our needs. See also, https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/ https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/