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is there any evidence this is legitimate?

DevX101 15y ago
The fact that the account was just started 1 week ago suggests to me that Github had been preventing squatting on the account until it was official.
- gulbrandr 15y ago
  You are right, I tried with Microsoft: http://i.imgur.com/PJiOy.png http://i.imgur.com/PJiOy.png https://github.com/microsoft/ https://github.com/microsoft/
  - zbowling 15y ago
    Microsoft is on github. Github should let these teams setup an organization under Microsoft as a pointer. https://github.com/microsoft-dpe https://github.com/microsoft-dpe https://github.com/Microsoft-Interop https://github.com/Microsoft-Interop https://github.com/WindowsAzure https://github.com/WindowsAzure
    - gulbrandr 15y ago
      Indeed but it does not change DevX101's point. Also it is strange they did not request the microsoft account
    - doty 15y ago
      That would require these various teams at Microsoft to act as if they were a single organization. This has historically been difficult for teams at Microsoft.
      - gkop 15y ago
        Right? Apparently they can't even agree on whether or not they want caps or dashes in their organization names.
        skrebbel 15y ago
        Which matters!
      - zbowling 15y ago
        What is funny is that some of the same engineers are on all these github accounts.
      - jf 15y ago
        I'm working on this. And, yes, it's difficult.
packetslave 15y ago
This Github account is definitely run by Googlers (Will Norris and Ilya Grigorik). It was announced on one of the internal mailing lists a few days ago as a companion to code.google.com for things like rubygems, not as a replacement of any kind.
- jamesmanning 15y ago
  any chance they (or github, or someone else) will enable bidirectional syncing of changes? It'd be nice to see 2 or 3 of the ones out there support not just importing, but also methods for automating the syncing of changes, especially if that means that I can do a github pull request and it automagically becomes a branch or patch file sent to an svn-hosted project.

The fact that the account was just started 1 week ago suggests to me that Github had been preventing squatting on the account until it was official.

gulbrandr 15y ago
You are right, I tried with Microsoft: http://i.imgur.com/PJiOy.png http://i.imgur.com/PJiOy.png https://github.com/microsoft/ https://github.com/microsoft/
- zbowling 15y ago
  Microsoft is on github. Github should let these teams setup an organization under Microsoft as a pointer. https://github.com/microsoft-dpe https://github.com/microsoft-dpe https://github.com/Microsoft-Interop https://github.com/Microsoft-Interop https://github.com/WindowsAzure https://github.com/WindowsAzure
  - gulbrandr 15y ago
    Indeed but it does not change DevX101's point. Also it is strange they did not request the microsoft account
  - doty 15y ago
    That would require these various teams at Microsoft to act as if they were a single organization. This has historically been difficult for teams at Microsoft.
    - gkop 15y ago
      Right? Apparently they can't even agree on whether or not they want caps or dashes in their organization names.
      - skrebbel 15y ago
        Which matters!
    - zbowling 15y ago
      What is funny is that some of the same engineers are on all these github accounts.
    - jf 15y ago
      I'm working on this. And, yes, it's difficult.

packetslave 15y ago

This Github account is definitely run by Googlers (Will Norris and Ilya Grigorik). It was announced on one of the internal mailing lists a few days ago as a companion to code.google.com for things like rubygems, not as a replacement of any kind.

jamesmanning 15y ago
any chance they (or github, or someone else) will enable bidirectional syncing of changes? It'd be nice to see 2 or 3 of the ones out there support not just importing, but also methods for automating the syncing of changes, especially if that means that I can do a github pull request and it automagically becomes a branch or patch file sent to an svn-hosted project.