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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Dear Github Maintainers</h1> |
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2016-01-15 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/github/">#github</a> |
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<p>A rebuttal to "Dear Github".</p> |
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<p>So recently in Reddit, there is this thread going around about |
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<a href="https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github">Dear Github</a>, |
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which points some problems with Github issues pages.</p> |
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<p>Thing is, most of the problems are not problems with Github itself, but by the |
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community that grew around it.</p> |
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<p>For example, the most annoying one is the huge amount of "+1" in comments. I've |
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seen this and yes, it's annoying as hell. Lots of people come around and post |
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a simple "+1" instead of really contributing. This is <em>not</em> an issue with |
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Github, it is an issue with the community that instead of helping fixing a |
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problem, thinks that posting "+1" to point that it is important to them is |
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actual help. It isn't. I've seen issues with so many "+1" that if everyone |
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who posted a "+1" actually submitted a single change, the bug would be fixed |
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with spare lines.</p> |
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<p>(Unpopular opinion: Github should have support for "+1", but actually <em>ban</em> it. |
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It is unhelpful. If it's important to you, you should at least give a try to |
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fix the issue instead of "+1" and giving yourself a pat in the back for |
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"helping out".)</p> |
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<p>Issues missing important information surely is a problem, but that's why you |
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need to triage your issues. Is there any missing information? You can reply to |
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the poster. "But why should I ask when I can put a form for the user to fill |
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issues?" Dude, seriously? You're worried that you will lose 30 seconds of your |
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life to ask something? Why don't you want to talk to your community, why you |
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don't want to teach people how to properly report errors? Is it that hard to |
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be part of a community?</p> |
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<p>But the hurting point is the "if Github was open source, we would fix this |
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ourselves". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious">Gitorious</a> was open |
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source and never had that much contribution from the community, to the point |
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it was closed and moved to Gitlab. So I have to ask: If Bitbucket implemented |
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this, would all of you move to it? My guess is an indignant "No", because |
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Github means exposure while all the other public Git sites are not.</p> |
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<p>To me, the whole list is not a list of problems with Github itself, but a |
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problem with the open source (in the general, broad term) community that's |
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growing around Github. We should worry about building communities, not building |
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code with 400 forks, 1000s of "+1" comments and a single maintainer.</p> |
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