Github compromised [LWN.net]

Github compromised

Posted Mar 7, 2012 18:01 UTC (Wed) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262)
In reply to: Github compromised by artem
Parent article: Github compromised

You replied to my parenthesis, not the main comment.

If you don't even want a mailing list or anything like it then the fact you can create a google group is not helpful, especially if you'd have to moderate it or let it drown in spam.

If you want to do a code dump somewhere public then GitHub is a reasonable choice. Yes, "social coding" may make you cringe, and it might be full of brogrammers commenting for the lulz, but its UI is far superior to e.g. SF.net, Google Code or Gitorious (I haven't tried Bitbucket because I don't much like Confluence or Jira, they're inferior proprietary copies of decent software.)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a GitHub fanboy, almost all my FOSS work is done on mailing lists and I'd prefer to see Gitorious improve to the point where it matches or exceeds GitHub's features and ease of use. I'm just trying to respond to "What's wrong with sending pull requests to e-mail list?" as you seem reluctant to accept that might not be the best choice for everyone.

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Github compromised

Posted Mar 7, 2012 19:32 UTC (Wed) by artem (subscriber, #51262) [Link]

In my point of view, "uploading some code where others can see it, use it, fork it etc" is not enough to be "social". If you want others to use your code, you'd better be ready to accept feedback (not necessarily in the form of pull requests) and participate in discussions. I don't think anyone have invented better media for that than plain old mailing list.

"social coding" does not make me cringe - what seems odd is that people tend to substitute activities on github (or any other "social" site) for real actual social coding (or life).