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.

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Wonder if they'll drop the social justice BS too

[Anonymous Coward]

Wonder if they'll drop the social justice BS too

**Distributed** VCS.

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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

Re:**Distributed** VCS.

[Gaygirlie]

Your reaction to them implementing a feature that people had asked for is to...suggest moving to something else?

Re:**Distributed** VCS.

[0100010001010011]

That's not how civilization evolves.

That's exactly how civilization evolves. We got Reddit when people got fed up with Digg and made something new. We got BitTorrent when the RIAA forcefully closed Napster. We got tor and i2p when governments started to try and limit people's access to stuff.

The good news is I don't have to write my on GitHub alternative, multiple people already have. GitLab offers private repos for free. My FreeNAS machine has separate jails for Gogs, GitLab and gitolite. My VPS is running gitolite.

People are sitting and whining about GitHub when there are multiple valid alternatives, that's not 'evolving' civilization it's sitting and whining about a free service.

request the owner who is responsible to make it better.

Or you find a new 'owner' that already has stuff unbroken from the start.

Nowadays you can't offer constructive criticism without the blunt commentary

That's because 'kids these days' sit and whine non stop that the free services they're using aren't doing things the way they want them done. I followed the whole 'gamergate' for a while on some of their premises that I agree with but if you read /r/KotakuInAction it's 90% whining about Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or someone else 'censoring them' while they continue to use those services.

If you really hate how Twitter works or who they hire STOP USING THEM. Instead you somehow think it's better to sit around and bitch and moan that Twitter isn't doing things the way you want them done and that's somehow Twitter's fault. Any slashdot reader should be able to put together a microblogging service in a few hours.

The biggest argument I've seen against migrating away from GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, et al is "But everyone else is using them". Seriously? The most difficult reason you can't migrate services is "But my friends don't hang out there"? Whine harder about how "SJWers" are ruining all your things and see if it actually changes anything.

Life's hard, wear a helmet, find a new service that fits your needs but no one wants to sit and listen to you bitch.

Re:Wonder if they'll drop the social justice BS to

[sjames]

So you look at someone who appears to be white and male and based only on gender and race you ASSUME that they must also be rich and personally guilty of some *-ism or another?

If you somehow have proven to you that they are wealth impaired you presume them to be ignorant?

I note that you seem to have no problem using the pejorative "redneck".