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They are both "maintainers who use GitHub's platform" and "maintainers of software GitHub depends on". "Our maintainers" is just as normal as "Our neighbor" or
by akerl_ 4y ago
They are both "maintainers who use GitHub's platform" and "maintainers of software GitHub depends on". "Our maintainers" is just as normal as "Our neighbor" or "Our users".
To pick the most adverse example: GitHub could equally talk about Gitlab and say "Our competitor". They're clearly not saying Gitlab belongs to them or giving them some kind of connection that doesn't exist.
- synu 4y agoStill sounds strange to me though I can understand your point. “One of our competitors” to me sounds the same as “one of our users”, and different from “one of our maintainers” when referring to someone who is not a maintainer of GitHub. It’s sounds more (to me) like calling someone else’s kids one of your children because they are visiting your house. Anyway, I can only imagine how uninteresting this conversation must be to anyone else :)