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Build cool shit and follow the proper release procedures for it. There is a huge difference between something unrelated to your employer on a personal repo, yo
by Arainach 4mo ago
Build cool shit and follow the proper release procedures for it. There is a huge difference between something unrelated to your employer on a personal repo, youremployerrepo/api-samples, and calling something "Employer Majorproduct CLI" on an official employer repo which is bound to be confused for an official release.
I would have been fired from every employer I've ever worked for of any size for doing something like that - including Google circa 2018.
- DANmode 4mo ago> follow the proper release procedures for it What happens when your thing or nothing close to your thing will ever see the light of day?
- no-name-here 4mo ago1. If google said ok but don't release under google’s name/in google’s repo, do that. 2. If google said no this goes against our goals for the product, don't release it if you want to keep working for google?
- whstl 4mo agoIt was clearly greenlighted by management. The person who made the announcement was Addy Osmani, who was manager of the fired developer at the time. This is in a Google-owned organization, with several other similar repositories, a lot of them using the same API.
- burakemir 4mo agoLooks like Addy Osmani is leaving, too.
- sib 4mo agoIs that relevant here, given that Google was creating an official thing quite close to his thing at the same time? (And why are we writing like this?)
- DANmode 4mo ago> Google was creating an official thing quite close to his thing Just link to it.
- Arainach 4mo agoIt's mentioned in the original link for this post.
- seanhunter 4mo agoFair to point out, the official google thing, was quite a lot worse than his thing. (I’m quite into the whole “Posting in free verse” idea)
- gedy 4mo agoWould you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?
- Arainach 4mo agoNone of that is relevant. You're working on things for their employer, they control when and if anything is released. Most of us have worked on projects that were cancelled - even when that happens you don't just release it anyway.
- DANmode 4mo ago> they control when and if anything is released I don’t think that’s how APIs work at all. Upon reflection, the only thing this guy did wrong was put his name on the thing…
- Suppafly 4mo ago>Build cool shit and follow the proper release procedures for it. By all reasonable measures, they did.