Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?

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Post by placeybordeaux » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 4:16 AM UTC

xmj wrote: post #37

aikah wrote: post #6

> Lately a number of open source projects has faced tremendous pressure from people coming from Twitter and Reddit to have issues resolved a certain way. Can you point to a specific example? the only things I have seen is some brigading and cabal to pressure a project owner to remove a contributor from a project, but it was akin to a lynch mob, not related with programming in any way.

The recent witch hunt against projects that don't have Code of Conducts. 'meh' did a masterful job with those: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/945

It's really sad that it seems like the developer in question wasn't even speaking from a place of hate. Really unfortunate that the reaction is basically the pressure others to participate in a silent treatment of the individual.

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?

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Post by ahmdrefat » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 5:13 AM UTC

tomasien wrote: post #34

I saw this as a possible helpful tool. They actually sent some un-solicited emails to folks running large projects (which they definitely should not have done but seem to feel bad about) so it got a lot of bad will off the bat, but it seems helpful. https://githelp.io/

Thank you for mentioning it, and yes we've done this mistake and we've apologized for everyone. And GitHelp is about open source support, where we encourage users to take of all thier support request from GitHub and have them on GitHelp where they can have a better more professinal support services than just a simple Q&A

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?

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Post by gsudarkoff » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

Managing scale is managing scale. There are numerous business books written on this subject. In a nutshell: build a scalable org structure (delegate, get yourself out of the loop when possible), explicitly define policies and processes, establish quality controls and do NOT compromise on quality, invest in communication and training...

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?

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Post by paperrr1 » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

xmj wrote: post #37

aikah wrote: post #6

> Lately a number of open source projects has faced tremendous pressure from people coming from Twitter and Reddit to have issues resolved a certain way. Can you point to a specific example? the only things I have seen is some brigading and cabal to pressure a project owner to remove a contributor from a project, but it was akin to a lynch mob, not related with programming in any way.

The recent witch hunt against projects that don't have Code of Conducts. 'meh' did a masterful job with those: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/945

So someone has an opinion that is entirely valid and a group of people are mobbing in order to attempt to ruin his life -- due to an IDEA?! This is 1966 China Cultural Revolution / 1984 thought control tier stuff right here. It's out of fucking control. We no longer live in a free society. Either you agree with this mass of people or they'll fucking end your career.