Somewhat ironic that a company that’s entire existence was based on the idea of giving developers great tools no longer values giving its own developers great tools. Only a matter of time before this new attitude towards developers shows up in the product.
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
#12"for the sole purpose of video conferencing". They're still using slack for day-to-day...
So the official meetings will be in teams and the important meetings in Slack huddles?
Does teams allow you to draw on the screen?
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#13Maybe I'm nuts, but I see almost zero appreciable difference between any of the most common chat or video conference platforms. They all have some little quirks or bonus features, but 99% of the time I'm only using the core features that they all do the same. Slack is absurdly expensive for what it does. Slack Pro is $12.50/person/mo. It's the same price for O365 which includes chat, video and the entire Office suite.
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#14"for the sole purpose of video conferencing". They're still using slack for day-to-day...
Step 1 towards, "we will be using Teams for day-to-day collaboration".
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#15That’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.
But this isn't just about video conferencing software. I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that Microsoft is going to keep pushing in the same direction
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#16No 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 ?
How might they do that given that Microsoft now owns all of the IP and GitHub is mostly closed source? It seems like a very different situation than the liberally open source MySQL.
Re: 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
#18That’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.
You'd think but if where I work ever mandated I had to stop using Linux I'd start looking elsewhere. I have to spend 8 hours a day using a tool and I get frustrated with suboptimal tools, why subject myself to that on top of everything else I have to do.
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#19Next you must use office 365 for all documents and we will be moving to Sharepoint.
Re: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
#20"for the sole purpose of video conferencing". They're still using slack for day-to-day...
I guess it could have been worse. It could have been Skype for Business.