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Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by vonklaus »

Perihelion wrote: post #29
vonklaus wrote: post #26

Gitlab has been the first "developer tools" company I have been using since fairly early on. I fucking love them, think Holman will be a phenomenal addition, and am just super excited for the new products/services they will be offering. godspeed gitlabs...and I mean that somewhat literally. You guys have to improve your speed a bit, but Holman was there for github's scaling activities, so maybe that is one place they…

Heya, shoot me an email (amanda@gitlab.com) and I'll see what I can do about getting you some stickers. Thanks for the feedback! It's great to hear :)

sent. Thanks!

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by exstudent2 »

taw567 wrote: post #25
grandalf wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he left Github long before that stuff happened.

Or did he ? http://www.dailydot.com/business/julie-ann-horvath-names-git...

Just to be clear, there's no evidence of him harassing anyone in that article.

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by argonaut »

eachro wrote: post #33

I read his Fired post, and still can't really seem to understand why he got fired. Anyone have a better read on his firing situation?

His writeup: https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people

We cannot know for sure whether it has anything to do with his firing (and he doesn't mention it in the writeup), but Julie Ann Horvath did accuse Zach of harassing her at GitHub.

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by abalone »

argonaut wrote: post #34
eachro wrote: post #33

I read his Fired post, and still can't really seem to understand why he got fired. Anyone have a better read on his firing situation?

His writeup: https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people We cannot know for sure whether it has anything to do with his firing (and he doesn't mention it in the writeup), but Julie Ann Horvath did accuse Zach of harassing her at GitHub.

Writeup on that situation (but lacking any concrete specifics about Holman, it's important to note): http://www.dailydot.com/business/julie-ann-horvath-names-git...

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by duncan_bayne »

I migrated to GitLab after GitHub refused - either in writing, or even in person! - to respond to my questions about Opal.rb.

Specifically I was asking whether their hiring Coraline Ehmke constituted an endorsement of her behaviour towards that project, and towards politicisation of OSS in general in that manner.

It's looking increasingly likely that I made the right call.

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by metaphorm »

duncan_bayne wrote: post #36

I migrated to GitLab after GitHub refused - either in writing, or even in person! - to respond to my questions about Opal.rb. Specifically I was asking whether their hiring Coraline Ehmke constituted an endorsement of her behaviour towards that project, and towards politicisation of OSS in general in that manner. It's looking increasingly likely that I made the right call.

sounds to me like you were trying to get them to validate your biases by making a statement that no sanely managed company (with lawyers on staff) would ever do under any circumstances.

whatever your issue with Coraline Ehmke is (I have no idea what the situation there is) you should still try to conduct yourself with some kind of professionalism and decorum.

politicization of OSS is indeed becoming a problem and I've seen some problematic behavior from a lot of people involved in political conflicts with this stuff. however, there is nothing more certain to undermine and destroy the OSS community than dragging yourself and everyone around you through the mud because of some internet flame wars that got a little out of hand.

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by justinlardinois »

argonaut wrote: post #34
eachro wrote: post #33

I read his Fired post, and still can't really seem to understand why he got fired. Anyone have a better read on his firing situation?

His writeup: https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people We cannot know for sure whether it has anything to do with his firing (and he doesn't mention it in the writeup), but Julie Ann Horvath did accuse Zach of harassing her at GitHub.

The sibling to this comment links to an article about that. This is the first I've heard of the situation, but that article doesn't say anything about her accusing him of harassment. Rather, it says that the two of them were in a relationship at the time, and she accused him of being complicit by sharing information with her harassers and otherwise ignoring the issue.

Regardless of what happened or didn't happen, his close association with her probably didn't help anything.

Re: Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

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Post by otterpro »

Perihelion wrote: post #29
vonklaus wrote: post #26

Gitlab has been the first "developer tools" company I have been using since fairly early on. I fucking love them, think Holman will be a phenomenal addition, and am just super excited for the new products/services they will be offering. godspeed gitlabs...and I mean that somewhat literally. You guys have to improve your speed a bit, but Holman was there for github's scaling activities, so maybe that is one place they…

Heya, shoot me an email (amanda@gitlab.com) and I'll see what I can do about getting you some stickers. Thanks for the feedback! It's great to hear :)

I'm a big fan of Gitlab, too. Can I also get a sticker? (I can send SASE to cover shipping, if that's a concern).
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