> it says that a lot of github's popularity is amongst people who do things like "following repositories because they like them"
Yes, why not? I'm happy to star the repo which has the code my phone is running, just for later references. It might be far from the most useful feature at github, but what does it tell about me? Why are you being mean, if I may ask?
> Meanwhile, the rest of us
You and parent and maybe grand parent use this "rest of us". What does it mean? That you need to bring with you the "rest of us" (your team, your friends?) to make a point.
Mind you, under the hypothesis I understood it properly, I actually agree with your core point, which is that github is sometime giving the impression to feed the crowd with new features that are a tight bit superficial.
But this point is 98% uninteresting if you don't bring a laundrylist of mind-breaking feature you think should be coded instead. I'll help with a few:
- Commit forwarding to same repo at other hosts
- Use github as git-svn interface
- Private repos (I seem to be the only one to not want everyone to peek at my shitty hardcoded bashrc)
- Shared repo templates (eg create a new repo with a python gunicorn setup ready made, after filling a few fields), a la Linode recipies
- Allow-all repos, anyone can commit to it.
- Shareable user created repo analysers, code checkers, commit hooks.
I have no idea if any of these ideas is sane, but at least it should leave a bit less negative trails on this board.
Yes, why not? I'm happy to star the repo which has the code my phone is running, just for later references. It might be far from the most useful feature at github, but what does it tell about me? Why are you being mean, if I may ask?
> Meanwhile, the rest of us
You and parent and maybe grand parent use this "rest of us". What does it mean? That you need to bring with you the "rest of us" (your team, your friends?) to make a point.
Mind you, under the hypothesis I understood it properly, I actually agree with your core point, which is that github is sometime giving the impression to feed the crowd with new features that are a tight bit superficial.
But this point is 98% uninteresting if you don't bring a laundrylist of mind-breaking feature you think should be coded instead. I'll help with a few:
- Commit forwarding to same repo at other hosts
- Use github as git-svn interface
- Private repos (I seem to be the only one to not want everyone to peek at my shitty hardcoded bashrc)
- Shared repo templates (eg create a new repo with a python gunicorn setup ready made, after filling a few fields), a la Linode recipies
- Allow-all repos, anyone can commit to it.
- Shareable user created repo analysers, code checkers, commit hooks.
I have no idea if any of these ideas is sane, but at least it should leave a bit less negative trails on this board.