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GitHub Is Undergoing a Full-Blown Overhaul As Execs and Employees Depart (businessinsider.com)
mattydread23 writes: This is what happens when hot startups grow up. [GitHub] CEO Chris Wanstrath is imposing management structure where there wasn't much before, and execs are departing, partly because the company is cracking down on remote work. It's a lot like Facebook in 2009. Business Insider has the full inside story based on multiple sources in and close to the company.
He's not wrong, just look at the subreddit dedicated to outing the lunacy going on over there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gitinaction
I'll give a few examples:
https://archive.is/JzOoj scroll down for the insanity
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/165 people complaining about the labels Master/Slave, yes seriously
https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8 the banning of a user who used the eggplant emoji
https://github.com/womenwhocodedc/organization/issues/26 complaining about "Too many CIS(straight) White Men at WWCDC"
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 complaining about gendered pronouns
Remind me, where is the Meirtocracy in all this again?
SourceForge always sucked, and never got better: they had an obtuse navigation structure, a ridiculously hard-to-use bug tracker, terrible source code management and viewing tools, way too many ads, etc. etc. -- and they seemed to refuse to evolve, in spite of pulling in who knows how much money.
We should never forget about the Open Code of Conduct debacle. GitHub is listed under the "What companies or communities support or use the Open Code of Conduct?" section on that page.
Read the comments at https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues/84. It's unbelievable how hypocritical some of the people are. The stuff about "reverse -isms" is particularly fucked up.