On: Ask HN: What’s your reaction if MS made GitHub stats available to recruiters?

[Piskvorrr]

First opt-in, then opt-out, our-way-or-the-highway next. As usual. Fortunately, emigrating from Github is not entirely hard, if that were to happen. (Yes, I feel the need for a disclaimer "this is all speculative"; alas)

[ken → Piskvorrr]

Moving a git repo is easy, but have you found any "not entirely hard" way to export Issues from GitHub? All I've found so far is essentially "here's an API, build it yourself".

[_ofdw → ken]

If you're relying on issues for documentation, I would suggest you are misusing that tool and should focus on writing good documentation instead.

If you aren't relying on issues for documentation, what of value is being lost?

[tomjen3 → _ofdw]

You have a history of the discussion about how the problem was solved, right? That is pretty valuable, should something similar come up again.

[_ofdw → tomjen3]

Why wouldn't that be in commit messages, documentation, or a FAQ?