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Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by kelukelugames »

felixgallo wrote: post #17

These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day? Here's what I would build if I worked at github: * Github CI - simple CI for every language, integrating with: * Github Artifacts - repository for versioned deployable build packages (binaries, tar.gz files, ios builds, android builds...), integrating with: * Github Deploy - d…

What is CI and why do people want it? I looked up the acronym on wikipedia but couldn't figure it out.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by tracker1 »

holic wrote: post #47
beltex wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Add HTTPS support to Github Pages This is technically already available, though not officially documented anywhere [1]. Example [2] [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-377... [2] https://beltex.github.io

While that's true, I think the discussion in that issue has gone more towards HTTPS support for custom domains.

You could always use CloudFlare directly for that... I would presume that their underlying connection to Github is very close and reliable in terms of risk for MITM.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by davidcelis »

kelukelugames wrote: post #51
felixgallo wrote: post #17

These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day? Here's what I would build if I worked at github: * Github CI - simple CI for every language, integrating with: * Github Artifacts - repository for versioned deployable build packages (binaries, tar.gz files, ios builds, android builds...), integrating with: * Github Deploy - d…

What is CI and why do people want it? I looked up the acronym on wikipedia but couldn't figure it out.

Continuous Integration. A good example of that service would be something like http://travis-ci.org or https://jenkins-ci.org. Basically it's a service that runs some predefined task (usually your test suites) at important points: when something is pushed to or merged into master, when a Pull Request is opened, etc...

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by trusche »

kelukelugames wrote: post #51
felixgallo wrote: post #17

These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day? Here's what I would build if I worked at github: * Github CI - simple CI for every language, integrating with: * Github Artifacts - repository for versioned deployable build packages (binaries, tar.gz files, ios builds, android builds...), integrating with: * Github Deploy - d…

What is CI and why do people want it? I looked up the acronym on wikipedia but couldn't figure it out.

Continuous Integration (testing)

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by scrollaway »

felixgallo wrote: post #17

These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day? Here's what I would build if I worked at github: * Github CI - simple CI for every language, integrating with: * Github Artifacts - repository for versioned deployable build packages (binaries, tar.gz files, ios builds, android builds...), integrating with: * Github Deploy - d…

Of all the things I wish Github had, a mailing list service would be really amazing, and the kind of thing that wouldn't be done in the first few months. Sourceforge offers atrocious mailman-based email, larger foss projects on github suffer :(

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by danieltillett »

fiatjaf wrote: post #46

A better way to browse forks. If today you see that a major repository has a fork with a lot of commits, you cannot know without looking through THEM ALL if they are just typo fixes or if the fork is really changing/improving things over the main repo.

This. The amount of time I have wasted looking in forks is staggering.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by davidcelis »

danielsamuels wrote: post #40

I've gotta say, I strongly disagree with this: > GitHub already has a great code search At some point in the last year or so Github rolled out a new search engine which drastically reduced it's usefulness. Any moderately complex search query now has all of the modifiers and key bits stripped out making your search results unnecessarily cluttered and somewhat useless. I consider it to be one of the worst parts of the…

I really wish there were some way to run code searches against branches/commits that aren't HEAD. If there is, it's not obvious.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by danieltillett »

bqe wrote: post #41
kzhahou wrote: post #23

They'll need another $100 million to get these done! (Yes, by which I am saying their website has not improved much given their massive funding)

It's actually very surprising how little visible improvement GitHub has had in the past few years. What are they working on?

Marketing by the looks of it. I have to say I like what Gitlab is doing these days much more than GitHub.
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