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GitHub is indeed the 800 lb. Git gorilla in the OSS world, so I don't doubt that your main motivation is to serve the interests of your readers, but it's probab
by mhartl 12y ago
GitHub is indeed the 800 lb. Git gorilla in the OSS world, so I don't doubt that your main motivation is to serve the interests of your readers, but it's probably a good idea to disclose the potential conflict of interest (namely, that Pro Git coauthor Scott Chacon was GitHub's first employee and still works there).
- schacon 12y agoI do actually cover this in the preface: https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/master/book/preface.asc https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/master/book/preface.a... The conflict of interest does bother me, so I did try to be as clear as I could about it and to point out at the beginning of the chapter that you could easily skip it if you don't like or don't want to use GitHub. I also stayed away from everything I could that required payment. The truth is that I've been approached to write books specifically about GitHub for several years so I thought that the demand for that sort of information was high enough to warrant moving it to it's own chapter. Had I been approached about writing about other resources I would probably have also included them. The more difficult decision was whether to include information on Gerrit. I actually started writing a section on it, then considered a chapter or appendix. The main deciding factor was how many people I thought might benefit from it.