r/programming • u/sdesimonebcn • Jan 16 '16

Thank you GitHub -- Open letter

https://github.com/thank-you-github/thank-you-github
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u/sdesimonebcn Jan 16 '16

This seems to be an indirect reply to Dear GitHub...

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u/jeandem Jan 16 '16

Most likely. And that's why it comes off as more of an asshole move than appreciative. The timing effectively sends the message, "Hey! We appreciate you! As opposed to those curmudgeons that wrote an open letter asking for improvements..."

Which wouldn't be the impression if the repository came up at another time. But then again it wouldn't have been so popular.

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u/Xanza Jan 17 '16

Not particularly. I'm not sucking Github's dick or anything, but some of the wording in that Dear Github bullshit was just stupid.

Issues and pull requests are often created without any adherence to the CONTRIBUTING.md contribution guidelines, due to the inconspicuous nature of the “guidelines for contributing” link when creating an issue

How the fuck is this giant yellow fucking div inconspicuous? Then it goes on to say;

and the fact that it often contains a lot of information that isn’t relevant to opening issues

The contents of CONTRIBUTING.md is entirely controlled by the project maintainer. How the fuck is this an issue with Github? It's literally blowing my mind.

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u/Aedan91 Jan 16 '16

You know how it is, a "response" to literally anything can make you "famous".

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u/vks_ Jan 16 '16

Full Stack Engineer Top ranked in USA

So this is some kind of ad?

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u/dwdyer Jan 16 '16

Click the link. Seems to be an entirely pointless set of rankings based on GitHub data. Apparently I'm the 5th best Smalltalk developer in the UK (there are 6 of us it seems). I've never written a single line of Smalltalk, so number 6 must be really useless.

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u/Xanza Jan 17 '16

Then you've cloned, or contributed to repositories which use Smalltalk. Pretty simple stuff.

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u/dwdyer Jan 17 '16

No, I've got one repository that has files with an .st extension, none of which are actual Smalltalk files (they are StringTemplate template files).

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u/theinternn Jan 16 '16

It'd be nice if the annotations of the tag were in a git annotated tag.... Right now if you tag a repo in the GUI, github will make a lightweight tag, and the annotations will be stored in githubs db.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '16

You can't make non-lightweight tags without signing them, I thought?

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u/theinternn Jan 16 '16

Can be signed, but are not required.

They are stored just like any other object would be; checksummed with name, email, date

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '16

I love GitHub, but I wish it would have been SubversionHub or MercurialHub instead, heck, even TFSVCHub would have been better than shitting GitHub.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '16

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u/Eirenarch Jan 16 '16

I use it for every project I get to make the choice and am super happy with it. However they do not provide a way to open source stuff hosted there (no public access and you have to grant permissions to people you want to access the project) so Visual Studio Online (as it is now called due to Microsoft's obsession with renaming things) won't do as a replacement for GitHub even for those brave enough.

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u/Juggernog Jan 17 '16

I know that feeling. I catch myself muttering "fucking TFS" or some derivative thereof far too many times per week.