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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.
If anyone can take over the throne from GitHub, why would it not be BitBucket? They produce the excellent and free Git client Sourcetree, and all around have a more reasonable pricing model than GitHub.
It's not like I don't have a GitHub account, everyone does, but I also have a BitBucket account and have no qualms switching to them entirely if GitHub really starts being a problem (well, MORE of a problem since they did just recently have a big outage... perhaps that was early warning).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Any time you have that kind of growth, you are going to have culture change, and it's going to make people upset if they liked the old culture.
The problem with Github is their "culture change" is comprised of hyper-SJWs, the type of people who feel that every open source programming project must have a code of conduct, every project no matter how small must have women and minorities and transgender xe/be/ge/be's involved. These are the people who, if you reject a pull request from someone who's black, will accuse you of being a racist white supremacist, even when you aren't white. These individuals are far less concerned about what the Github business does - you know, being a version control repository - than they are about being some kind of white knights on an ivory tower making a political statement.
You think I'm joking, or you want to blow me off, have a look at what happened to the Opal project. That lady isn't a troll, people like her are out there, and they truly believe in what they're doing. They honestly think that someone who makes a politically incorrect tweet, entirely on his own time and not representing anyone but himself, should be banned from contributing to a project that he's devoted thousands of hours to. Just because he made one statement they don't agree with. And when the project leaders dare to say "get outta here, what have you contributed?" they round up hundreds of their closest Tumblr white knight friends to chime in.
These people will look up who you work for and send complaints to your job, trying to get you fired. They'll harass your friends and family over whatever social media they can find. They'll recruit their merry band of social warriors to do the same. You make one offhanded comment on Twitter or Facebook that hurts one person's feelings, and suddenly hundreds of angry cunts (men *and* women can be cunts) are bombarding everyone you know with hatred. The irony is completely lost upon these idiots.
The Code of Conduct pushing, nobody's-feelings-can-be-hurt style, immature and unprofessional (and outright illegal, if they're doxxing) crowd has taken over Github. This applies to their employees just as much as the users they're fostering. The users are being encouraged by the platform, after all.
Stay away from Github. You will not be pleased with the outcome when one day, your innocent little project with 5 users gets brigaded by hundreds of feminists and white knights, slandering your name to kingdom come, just because you rejected a pull request from a unicorn-kin.
Git itself is fine. It's like subversion. It's just a tool. You can host your own repos, entirely independent of any third part. But Github is toxic.
Sourceforge lost track of what they were doing. They pursued ad revenue on their web pages, rather than quality of service and the business model of converting free open source and freeware software authors into paying customers.
So far, github has done very well at doing so and providing "5 9's" of reliable service. They've definitely been far more reliable than the in-house wikis and source repositories I've worked with in house and working with partner companies.And as much as I appreciate that Sourceforge has long-running CVS and Subversion projects, I genuinely wish they'd simply migrate and discard that technology. They're not reliable enough to use for the necessary 24x7 access to publish updates in a Subversion or CVS repository.