GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
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Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#2That’s plenty of time to dust off the resume and start pounding the pavement! Very generous of Microsoft to give so much notice!
Edit: for those who may think I’m overreacting to a small change in tooling, I offer this classic essay [1]. It explains the reasoning behind leaving much better than I could!
[1] https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#3uh.. i dont see the problem?
They are only using it for video conferencing. day to day collab still on slack...
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#4"for the sole purpose of video conferencing". They're still using slack for day-to-day...
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#5Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats, however the video conferencing is actually quite good and I didn’t have any real issues moving from Zoom to it.
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#6uh.. i dont see the problem? They are only using it for video conferencing. day to day collab still on slack...
Its like forced conversion. It only benefits MSFT. Teams get to claim github as a customer, and MSFT saves some money. This might be small, but usually this opens the door to a whole suite of software being shoved down github's work/tech stack.
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#7No surprise here, but I wish almost anyone else purchased github instead of Microsoft. One can hope the founders will eventually pull a "MySQL" --> "mariadb" :)
I wonder when github developers will be forced to moved from Linux to Windows ?
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#8Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats, however the video conferencing is actually quite good and I didn’t have any real issues moving from Zoom to it.
Background noise cancellation is pretty bad compared to zoom. Teams seems to flake out more when sharing desktops than zoom does (though I've had issues with both).
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#9uh.. i dont see the problem? They are only using it for video conferencing. day to day collab still on slack...
> They are only using it for video conferencing. day to day collab still on slack...
If they're already using Slack, Slack has video conferencing and they are trying to reduce costs, why not centralize everything in Slack or Teams?
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#10That’s plenty of time to dust off the resume and start pounding the pavement! Very generous of Microsoft to give so much notice! Edit: for those who may think I’m overreacting to a small change in tooling, I offer this classic essay [1]. It explains the reasoning behind leaving much better than I could! [1] https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Changing jobs over video conferencing software would be extreme.