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This comes after the intense backlash following the squashing of the project's entire contributor/commit history. I was wondering why the issue complaining abo
by kmfrk 13y ago
This comes after the intense backlash following the squashing of the project's entire contributor/commit history.
I was wondering why the issue complaining about this didn't have any recent updates.
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EDIT: It looks like some people may have used the Issues system to launch asinine political bromides against Obamacare proper - that were and are completely impertinent to the GitHub project. This could have been part of the reasoning for closing off the repo, but I've never dealt with users basically defacing my Issues system, so I don't know what your options are as repo owner in a situation like that.
- goshakkk 13y agoThey could've just disabled issues if a lot of people were abusing them... Why close the repo?
- kmfrk 13y agoThey should at least have explained their decision somewhere, what with this purporting to be open, transparent, etc.
- lukeschlather 13y agoI get the impression they have much bigger problems than PR right now, and they really don't have any time to devote to PR.
- kmfrk 13y agoThere's also the aspect of giving contributors their due credit and thanks. As time and furloughs allow, to be sure, but I'm only talking about two paragraphs' worth of giving people who've poured hours into the project an explanation of what's gone on. I honestly don't care one iota about the concept of being entitled to the FOSS source code; I'm just slightly miffed about the seeming lack of thanks for the people who chipped in. If you will, it's about what's owed to contributors, not tax-payers. It's a small thing that means a great deal.
- tannerc 13y agoTo bring in the cleanup crew? Or "teach the kids a lesson" perhaps? Whatever the reasoning, kmfrk's comment rings true: wasn't this all about transparency?
- senthilnayagam 13y agoI get it I now, 1277 files and just 3 commits for the static site, I did not thing about squashing then
- bhauer 13y ago> It looks like some people may have used the Issues system to launch asinine political bromides against Obamacare proper - that were and are completely impertinent to the GitHub project. Seems a fair reason to turn off the issues, at least for the time being. However, it is interesting that a similar abuse of issues [1] is left undisturbed by administrators of the WhiteHouse account when the asinine political bromides are favorable to the current administration. I don't expect anything less, of course. [1] https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues/3 https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues/3
- kmfrk 13y agoIf you have the inside scoop on why they closed off the repo, by all means share with the rest of us.
- bhauer 13y ago> If you have the inside scoop on why they closed off the repo, by all means share with the rest of us. I do not. I agree with you that disabling the issues due to abuse makes sense.
- aaronem 13y agoA 'bromide' is the verbal equivalent of patent medicine, a meaningless nostrum or 'thought-terminating cliché' in the modern vernacular; I think you meant 'broadside', which is literally a ship of war firing her entire main battery at once, or metaphorically a full-throated and fiery verbal attack. The More You Know(tm).