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New GitHub Upgrades Respond To Recent Complaints (thenewstack.io)

Posted by timothy on from the developer-is-always-right dept.

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.

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  1. Wonder if they'll drop the social justice BS too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder if they'll drop the social justice BS too

  2. **Distributed** VCS. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So stop using them.

    If you don't want to host:

    • https://gitlab.com/
    • https://sourceforge.net/ (whiplash, I'm counting on you fixing sf's name)
    • https://bitbucket.org/

    Or if you're a slashdotter that knows how to self host:

    • https://gitlab.com/
    • https://gogs.io/
    • http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html