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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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> <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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> 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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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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