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On 11/26/2016 01:08 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:03:59 -0800 |
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> Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> <rant> |
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>> A funny deficiency of GitHub is it doesn't allow for open conversations. |
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>> You're always forced to talk about something directly related to the |
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>> code, like an Issue or a Commit. Gists can be somewhat analogous to an |
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>> open discussion, but that strikes me as abuse of the medium. |
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>> Additionally, it's not a threaded format so it's hard to guess which |
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>> branch of conversation you're on. |
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>> |
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>> Of course sometimes you *want* to focus strictly on the code, but that's |
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>> not how real-world organizations work. They're made of people, and most |
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>> people end up talking about things *around* the code that are still |
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>> important, like the various RFCs that we post here on the ML. None of |
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>> what GitHub offers is suitable for that imo. |
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>> </rant> |
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> GitHub is a code hosting and review tool, not a forum. It's not |
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> a replacement for everything ever invented. |
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The GitHub guys seem to disagree with you; unless you consider custom |
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emoji support (and reactions, thumbs-up counts, etc) integral to the |
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code review process. |
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Since you didn't address it, what tone was intended by the quip about |
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others "pretending" to not use GitHub? |
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