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One major flaw: it assumes anyone you would want to hire uses Github, as opposed to Bitbucket, Gitorious, Google Code, Launchpad, the numerous other code hosts
by LeafStorm 15y ago
One major flaw: it assumes anyone you would want to hire uses Github, as opposed to Bitbucket, Gitorious, Google Code, Launchpad, the numerous other code hosts I missed, or hosting their code on their own server.
And if Github becomes "the standard" for hosting software such that everyone looks for code and coders on Github instead of other places, that would be detrimental to the FOSS community as a whole - not only in Github's lack of competition with other code hosts, but also in git's lack of competition with other VCSes.
- xxqs 15y agodon't forget the good old sourceforge and freshmeat. besides, only about 10%, if not less, of registered github users do actual coding. Most of the users just follow the updates or fork and add patches.
- mnutt 15y agoonly about 10%, if not less Is there a number published somewhere?
- xxqs 15y agono, it's just my own feeling based on browsing and looking at who's following my projects :)
- BiosElement 15y agoSo it's not only a guess, but you imply patchers are not coders. That's just cheap.
- its_so_on 15y agoI can see when you last checked out freshmeat :)
- raganwald 15y agoTht is not a major flaw of using the service, that is a major flaw of an employer only using the service. This also true of every hiring source and strategy you can name. For example, what about hiring friends of employees? You miss out on good people who aren't networked into your team. A good employer will use a variety of strategies for finding prospective employees. This looks like one good way to get a list of five people that might--with further investigation--be worth interviewing.