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We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by drinchev »

p0nce wrote: post #27
EarthLaunch wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

My only complaint about bitbucket is that I want to see the code easily, not click through heaps of buttons to do that.

In the settings of every repo you own in Bitbucket, there is a n option to set "Landing Page" to source code and it will open the root path of your repo when you hit the link.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by cpayne »

iamcreasy wrote: post #14

Pretty cool! Are all these happening because Satya Nadella is trying to steer MS in new direction?

Maybe? But I think its more just a natural evolution. Scott Hanselman has been making noise regarding open source for years [1].

I'm not saying Scott is responsible, just that many people have been suggesting it for a long long time.

I saw a job today asking for TFS skills. THAT is a dying product...

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExampleHowToContributeAPatchTo...

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by deanclatworthy »

bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

It'd be a smart buy for a large software company, hedging their bets on moving into open source. I don't think it's out of the realms of possibility either.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by drinchev »

maaarghk wrote: post #15
EarthLaunch wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

What's better about Bitbucket? I've never used it, just wondering.

Also ( including the private repos ) there is a similar tool to hub [1], that is created for bitbucket [2].

With the unlimited private repos my mind went crazy, now I version control my "/etc" and every shell script I create. I even don't open the bitbucket website that often. I do everything from the terminal.

1: https://github.com/github/hub 2: https://bitbucket.org/zhemao/bitbucket-cli

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by SwellJoe »

bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

They'd have to bid against Google, by this logic, since Go also moved to Github recently.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by tdicola »

bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

What does MS gain? Is online source code storage really going to be a million or billion dollar business for them? It seems like it's just a race to the bottom with costs, just like Dropbox, Box, etc. etc.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by nstart »

statictype wrote: post #13
EarthLaunch wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

I like Bitbucket and have been using them for some time but their interface is slow and not as intuitive as Github's.

I stick with bitbucket mainly because of the pricing schemes. I create a lot of tiny private repos for company related work, sometimes just scripting type programs with only 5 files in it, and I can't afford to pay for each of those on github. Otherwise, github is just the best in the business in every aspect

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by brudgers »

bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

I've been listening my way through the archive of Scott Hanselman's hanselminutes podcasts. Microsoft has been striving to be on the right side of history in regard to open source for five or six years. It's all out in the open.

Moving to Github is simply developer friendly.

Don't misunderstand me. Microsoft's products compete with open source software in the marketplace for developer mindshare and I am not suggesting that this is not a business decision. Being on Github helps the company iterate quickly rather than on the multiyear cycles that were standard when software came in a box.

Will Microsoft buy Github?

Only if Github is selling.

And there was value for Microsoft. There isn't amazing technology, there. There's a huge liability for litigation hosting just anyone's content that comes with Microsoft size pockets, and Git, being distributed would allow an angry community to set up their own Son of Github if Microsoft took control and acted improperly.

Incidentally, WiX has been on SourceForge since 2006. There's been nary a rumor of a deal there.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by Joeboy »

bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

Microsoft or otherwise, I don't think the idea that GitHub is going to be run like a public utility forever is a smart bet.
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