Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

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68 points bitbasher | 2 comments | 15 Apr 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 1.752s | source

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miloc_c ◴[15 Apr 25 08:21 UTC] No.43690281[source]▶

Linus Torvalds (Git was originally created by him) seems to be actively contributing in GitHub for the Linux kernel repository (also created by him): https://github.com/torvalds/linux Anyone has seen his position on this topic?

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1. konimex ◴[15 Apr 25 09:19 UTC] No.43690643[source]▶

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> Anyone has seen his position on this topic?

Well, he's not a fan of GitHub pull request as per the last decade.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

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2. notarobot123 ◴[15 Apr 25 11:19 UTC] No.43691279[source]▶

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> So sure, you may think I hate github. I don't. I hate very specific parts of github that I think are done badly.

> But other parts are done really really well.

> I think github does a stellar job at the actual hosting part. I really do. There is no question in my mind that github is one of the absolute best places to host a project. It's fast, it's efficient, it works, and it's available to anybody.

> That's wonderful. I think github is absolutely lovely in many respects.

> And that then makes me really annoyed at the places where I think github does a subpar job: pull requests and committing changes using the web interface.

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