Do the undersigned send any money to github? It might be better to phrase your demand in the form of a question, "how much can we pay you to do this work for us?"
GitHub is a service, not a contracted vendor for work. There's a big difference.
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#32A shame that GitHub aren't more responsive to the community that enables their success when they make such a big deal of their openness. It is also our own fault that we have allowed ourselves to become dependent on a single provider of a relatively simple service.
That said, I'm extremely grateful to the platform for enabling collaboration on open source and to the company for its work on Git, Resque etc.
GitHub's strategy is to open source everything except the business critical stuff, but it seems to me that their business is in enterprise support rather than in actual software. Perhaps they should just open source the whole platform and count on their service business being enough to carry the company?
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#33Each and every suggestion is a sane and much needed improvement.
Especially the +1
Best github support thread ever : https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/9 (scroll down)
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#34Yup, I love GH, use it every day, but issue management is the pits.
It'd be really nice if I could custom sort the queue of issues so that I know what's next up in my queue of things to do; right now I've got 5 tags called NextUp:1 -> NextUp:5 on each repo; this takes way more manual updating than a simple drag/drop widget.
Like they mentioned, having a voting system would be super useful for knowing what matters -- I cringe every time I leave a +1, so I've gotten into the habit of at least adding a comment after it --- but the premise and the pain are the same.
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#36NB: Duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904693
Since they're both near the top we might as well treat the later post (which is the other one) as the duplicate.
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#38My experience with Github support is terrible, if not one of the worst, I once had an issue and contacted their support and it took them 1 month to respond to me (literally) I was really surprised by that.
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#39Do the undersigned send any money to github? It might be better to phrase your demand in the form of a question, "how much can we pay you to do this work for us?"
GitHub got to where it is today thanks to the network effect that the undersigned helped create. If open source were to do a mass migration to another provider, many of the contributors whom are paying for private repositories and other features would most likely follow.
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#40Bitbucket kills GitHub issues with these two features: - Multiple assignees for an issue - An "Approve" button so that maintainers can stamp a PR with the seal of approval
Github kills Bitbucket with this one feature: uptime