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I have my stuff on github, and I'm very careful to make sure I'm not locked in there. Yes I do use issue tracking and the wiki, but my projects are relatively s

by lawl 6y ago

I have my stuff on github, and I'm very careful to make sure I'm not locked in there. Yes I do use issue tracking and the wiki, but my projects are relatively small and it would be trivial to write a scraper to get that out of there. > A mostly-imaginary threshold. It's in your head. Think about it.. those with skills & time, who can wholesomely contribute, will highly likely to already have email and perhaps XMPP (Movim) or IRC. It is not the facilities stopping them, it's either skill or will to dedicate time. I believe this is simply not true. Not every project is the Kernel and not every contributor is planning to become a long term contributor. Drive-by PRs are often of questionable quality, yes, but I'm not sure they're always worthless. Where this really has value is the sort of project where someone writes something for themselves and then decides "might as well push it to github, maybe someone else can use it too". Then someone else comes along finds this and is like, oh cool, using this as a starting point saves me a few hours, and then decides "might as well open a PR in case they're interested in how i extended it". These are the cases where I do believe that githubs low friction does make a difference. Not everything is a proper project.

aequitas 6y ago
> Where this really has value is the sort of project where someone writes something for themselves and then decides "might as well push it to github, maybe someone else can use it too". Over the years I have been getting better and better results when looking for solutions when I add the 'github' keyword to the search. If your code isn't on Github and there is nothing really specific I can search for I will not find your code. This might be more the fault of search engines, but still. Sometimes 'gitlab' or even 'sourceforge' will result in something useful if it really isn't on Github.

by lawl 6y ago

aequitas 6y ago

> Where this really has value is the sort of project where someone writes something for themselves and then decides "might as well push it to github, maybe someone else can use it too". Over the years I have been getting better and better results when looking for solutions when I add the 'github' keyword to the search. If your code isn't on Github and there is nothing really specific I can search for I will not find your code. This might be more the fault of search engines, but still. Sometimes 'gitlab' or even 'sourceforge' will result in something useful if it really isn't on Github.