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I'm glad to see someone from github is actually replying on HN and not ignoring this. Thumbs up
Not just anyone - Jono literally wrote the book on building developer communities: http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
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Maybe something more noble than a social coding site? I doubt it. Github has a reputation problem. I wouldn't put anything sensitive on there, given the attitude github leadership showed about privacy ethics in the Julie Horvath incident.
Even if you don't have anything against Github relating to the Horvath incident, there are other things like Github shutting down people's projects because they wrote a doc containing the word "retard." In other words, now they are in the business of regulating the content of open source projects (beyond obvious precautions like not hosting stolen credit card databases, child porn, etc.) They seem to think they're to…
[0] - https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...
[1] - https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality
[2] - https://bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equa...
Please update the link to https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
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Where are you getting that they don't dogfood the issue tracker? It's a private tracker (private repository) but from what I've seen in the Github blog, they do... it wouldn't make much sense if they didn't.
If they're using it, they're doing so in completely different fashion than everyone else. That is, it's not public for viewing, submitting, commenting, etc. Indeed TFA indicates exactly the sorts of pain points that would be missed by those using the tool in such a radically different way than everyone else. If someone at GH had to wade through all the damn +1's then something would have been done about them years ag…
Huh? Github isn't opened sourced so how is a different fashion from anyone else using private repos?
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An open question is how the community should provide feedback. Perhaps if Github used their own issues system to gather feedback on Github itself, they'd more rapidly improve it. I'm sure they'd feel a lot of these pain points in a far sharper, more visceral way if they were subjected to them daily.
But then they'd be spammed with useless +1 comments
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If they're using it, they're doing so in completely different fashion than everyone else. That is, it's not public for viewing, submitting, commenting, etc. Indeed TFA indicates exactly the sorts of pain points that would be missed by those using the tool in such a radically different way than everyone else. If someone at GH had to wade through all the damn +1's then something would have been done about them years ag…
95% of all my github activity is in private repositories.
They make a facility available as a nicety, but if your project has legitimate Global impact, you should be looking at (or bootstrapping) a counterpart.
Don't have the revenue for JIRA? Apply for the Free license.
Don't have the stomach for Bugzilla? Turn out a Node/Go alternative.
Don't have the business alignment with Clearquest or Rally? Lower your expectations to suit your Free (as in beer) SCM tool.
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Yep. The problem is that some users are not aware of the conventions, and often you see on the Android Google Code repo "+1" or something along the lines of "Google plz fix this". This becomes heavily apparent when someone posts an Android issue directly onto the Android subreddit. I suspect the same could happen with GitHub issues. When you see others posting "+1", then others follow the same practice.
It seems to me that it would be a good idea to have a special-case that turns a comment where the only content is "+1" into a star request instead.
But still, yeah, it would be fairly trivial to require posts to be more than +1, or to display a warning when anyone starts a post with :+1: