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> Maybe I'm being too mean, but yeah, I also think a lot of the comments are pointless. Yeah, I think you're being a little mean. If you browse to that user's
by dlitz 12y ago
> Maybe I'm being too mean, but yeah, I also think a lot of the comments are pointless.
Yeah, I think you're being a little mean. If you browse to that user's GitHub page, it looks like it's just somebody new who's excited about software. Good for them.
The comments are pointless, sure, but also harmless. Similar comments might crowd out productive discussion if they were on (say) the head of the master branch, but I doubt that any serious development is happening on git's initial commit anyway. Let the new people have their fun.
As far as newbie disruptiveness goes, it could be far worse. When I was getting started with Linux, I posted this cringeworthy gem to LKML, now enshrined in the archives for all eternity: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/10/22/69 https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/10/22/69 If newbies today are merely posting "yay, git!" and "thank you!" to a secondary forum where it doesn't disrupt development, I'd say they're doing pretty well in comparison. :)
- scintill76 12y agoYeah, fair enough. Good on you for linking your own cringey post. I think a lot of developers have those early cringe moments, especially if they were young when they started. As far as disruption, it did occur to me later that somebody may be getting notification emails about these comments. But it's not too bad, as I assume they could just send the emails to /dev/null, since Github is not the official host of git. (As a tangential note, I sort of wish Github would handle this better. So many Github-mirrored projects end up with something like "don't submit pull requests or open issues here, they will be ignored" in their repo description.)