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GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by merb »

mschuster91 wrote: post #36
the_ancient wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket etc are not simply a GitServer, if that is all you want then there are better projects out there for that. hell basic ssh or http server can be used a gitserver with no front end at all or gitweb http://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb.html GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket etc are project Management platforms that enable Bug Tracking, Documentation, Social networking all on top of and around basic git funct…

No matter what extra functions, 20 users and 8 GB RAM is way out of proportions . Especially these days where everything is done on the client and the server only has to run a simple API!

just use git directly then without a gui server? or hell if you need a gui use upsource, that needs 8 gb ram however it is down you still could use everything else. https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/ (just repository browsing and code review not hosting, for hosting you need to create your bare repos yourself which is not hard)

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by victor9000 »

> While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging

How is this even legal? Change 'white' for any other race, and you'd have yourself a workplace discrimination lawsuit.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

tosseraccount wrote: post #55

"top lawyer, Julio Avalos, 'has amassed great power' in the company" It's often not a good sign when the top engineers or star salesmen aren't running a tech company.

Hence why the development of GH appears to have stagnated in the last few years. I deal with limitations related to permission handling on a daily basis with GH Enterprise.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by DannyBee »

mschuster91 wrote: post #4

> With plenty of competitors, including Atlassian, GitLab, and even Google, one thing is certain: If GitHub does stumble, there are plenty of companies that want to pick up its slack. Atlassian? Oh god. Their software might be ideal for corporate beancounters and expensive consultants, but for everyone else it's a nightmare. GitLab? A pile of memory leaks and other weirdness. Google? Not so much, I highly doubt they'…

"Google? Not so much, I highly doubt they'll ever re-open Google Code. "

One thing to remember is that the main reason Google did code.google.com was to create competition for sourceforge (I was the third or fourth person to join the code.google.com team)

Now, it's pretty much 100% that Google won't do this again anytime soon, but that doesn't mean some other large company won't have the same thought.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by yaakov34 »

iza wrote: post #15

> "We’re trying to build a new kind of enterprise company where the playbooks of old won’t always work" By replacing flat meritocracy and remote work with traditional top-down management? > "don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon, so let's limit their scope of damage" So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist.

Another quote is "it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white'". This is absurd and disgusting.

I haven't lived in the US for a while, but lately, I keep hearing all these expressions of straight up racial hatred of white people, all the way up to taking pleasure in white people "dying off" and so on. This kind of thing can't end well and needs to be stopped.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by AndyKelley »

ihsw wrote: post #2

Whatever happens, I hope they improve their Android app. It is one of the most pathetic things I've ever had the mispleasure of using. Is it really that difficult to get push notifications for pull requests, issues, and my homepage news feed? I don't know what it's built with but it's not native in the least, it looks like some awful PhoneGap monstrosity.

Octodroid is a winner.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by cjcole »

iza wrote: post #15

> "We’re trying to build a new kind of enterprise company where the playbooks of old won’t always work" By replacing flat meritocracy and remote work with traditional top-down management? > "don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon, so let's limit their scope of damage" So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist.

That categorization ("blatant racist") will sadly tend to produce an endless argument over who can and can't be racist. That's fruitless.

More accurately, that statement is both anti-white and misandrist, almost by definition, by equating white plus male with damage.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by [deleted] »

gaius wrote: post #43
at-fates-hands wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist. I had the same reaction. I'm surprised nobody else has noticed this and made a comment about it.

Search Twitter for #hnwatch.

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Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by pweepon »

victor9000 wrote: post #52
sanjeetsuhag wrote: post #35

> Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women. Can someone explain this ?

yes, it's blatant sexism and racism.

doesn't this also cross a legal boundary? if you're an independent activist fine, but both race and sex are protected categories in the workplace
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