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Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by snogglethorpe » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 3:40 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #3

scott_karana wrote: post #2

The guys and gals at Github constantly add really cool stuff. Good on them for working so hard.

Agreed! I'm really curious to know what users are motivating them to put so much effort into this area though.

I've always thought that maybe this was related to Github's super-flat management structure, where as I understand it, people have a lot of choice as to what they work on.

In such a system, it seems pretty natural that you'd get a lot of people doing "cool" stuff...

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by sshirokov » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 3:57 AM UTC

snogglethorpe wrote: post #11

michaelmior wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed! I'm really curious to know what users are motivating them to put so much effort into this area though.

I've always thought that maybe this was related to Github's super-flat management structure, where as I understand it, people have a lot of choice as to what they work on. In such a system, it seems pretty natural that you'd get a lot of people doing "cool" stuff...

Yep, that's the one.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by apinstein » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 4:09 AM UTC

This is cool, but, as a paying Github customer that's trying to use GH to manage a team of developers, I would sure rather see them working on tools to help me manage lots of branches and improve the code review tools. The current "network" tool is pretty useless and Pull Requests get weird quick once the re-work begins. I got psyched about GitHub because they were adding practical apps around using git to build code, and their focus at times seems to have drifted pretty far away from that mission.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by mentat » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 5:16 AM UTC

nextstep wrote: post #9

This is cool... I wonder if GitHub has analytics about how many of their users use these features? Because I have a short list of features I would love from GitHub (things like a UI for rebasing merges of Pull Requests, or the ability to do merge --squash) and I can't be the only one who's wanted these things. My point is, why doesn't GitHub implement more git-related features instead of cool visualization features?

Because people work on what interests them and that apparently doesn't.

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3020181/open-company/inside-github...