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New GitHub Upgrades Respond To Recent Complaints (thenewstack.io)
destinyland writes: Last week GitHub announced the ability to create templates for Issues and Pull Requests, in an apparent response to an open letter signed by 600+ project maintainers. "This is the first of many improvements to Issues and Pull Requests that we're working on based on feedback from the community," "wrote Ben Bleikamp, Product Manager at GitHub. The original letter, hosted in a "Dear-Github" repository, noted that "If GitHub were open source itself, we would be implementing these things ourselves as a community..." But this week GitHub continued releasing new improvements, offering a new feature with to upload files directly into repositories without leaving their browser.
The parent comment shouldn't have been modded down.
The use of "social justice" as an online weapon of sorts is actually a very serious issue for many of who have considered using GitHub.
There's the whole Open Code of Conduct debacle. On that very page, under the "What companies or communities support or use the Open Code of Conduct?" section, it clearly states "GitHub".
I encourage everyone to read the code of conduct for themselves. It's just absurd how detailed and controlling that code of conduct actually is.
But it's even crazier when it comes to stuff like its "reverse -isms" clause, which basically makes discrimination against certain groups of people mandatory!
You can read some of the comments supporting the code of conduct. It's unbelievable how hypocritical, contradictory and just outright hateful so many of the Open Code of Conduct's supporters are.
Code of conducts like that, and the people who support them, aren't there to foster a friendly, open community. They're there to brutally control others, and to force their views and opinions on others through censorship and harassment, even while claiming that such behavior is wrong!
I want absolutely nothing to do with those people, their twisted ideas, their rampant hypocrisy, and their atrocious codes of conduct. That's why I can't bring myself to use GitHub.