(H/T Instapundit) I mean: is Github “a cloud service that programmers use to store their software projects, share them, and work on them collaboratively in teams”? Or is Github a “product to tackle social issues, including diversity within the company itself”? I know that boosters for the latter would naturally reply that it’s both, but I’m really getting the impression that a bunch of people inside that company aren’t exactly as sanguine about the prospect.
Something to keep track of, I suppose. Admittedly, this isn’t exactly my patch; but I suspect that some of my readers may be more checked-out on this topic.
As someone who has recently had to learn how to use it (the project I’m working on uses it for source control) I’d say it’s purpose is to trap the unwashed in source control hell…
It’s dismaying to say the least, particularly the “diversity training” bits. I fail to see how a company that makes source control products is materially improved by limiting how many white males is has an denigrating the hiring of white females as “hindering progress”. They are setting fire to their own house.
Github is a server for the Git version control system. There are other options for a Git server.
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Use of the Leninist organizational weapon for political and personal ends has become more mainstream.
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There’s a particular flavor, the SJW, that has made itself known lately.
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esr has covered SJW entryism in open source from an open source perspective.
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Vox Day has covered it from a more political angle.
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I expect that SJWs are overconfident as a result of the current political climate. If the climate changes, or stays the same, matters might get uglier.
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Sarah Hoyt, who blogs at instapundit, is a Sad Puppy. Thus, you might be hearing more of this on there as that develops.
Any time you see someone who has a job title like “Vice President for Social Impact,” you know all the truly useful jobs at the company have been filled — at least at present. Those in charge are now removing job titles and duties from their collective rectal cavity, as the company expands to deal with crap that isn’t their crap to deal with, that won’t solve any problems, and that won’t generate any profits.
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Also: it’s interesting that white women are now barriers to diversity, according to that same VP. The next white woman who has a run-in with her supervisor ought to file suit against the company on some sort of “hostile work environment” theory. She might just win.
So Github used to just be a pretty decent source code repository back-end for using git. It’s fairly cheap for companies to use it. Today? It’s been taken over by the SJWs, who are in the process of turning a two billion dollar company into a much, much smaller one. The first inkling that I had that this was under way was in 2014, when they very publicly proclaimed that they were getting rid of a rug in their entry way which was a seal for ‘United Meritocracy of Github’. Because, you know, meritocracies are anathema for liberals, and SJWs in particular who consider the idea of having only someone’s code that they contribute, and not the color of their skin or the shape of their genitalia as tantamount to Nazism.
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I still have a couple of projects there, I really should track down some place decent to move them.
Gitlab.com for hosted or the open source GitLab Community Edition are EXCELLENT places to start. BitBucket is run by Atlassian and thus prone to Enterprise-itis, but is decent and supports Mercurial, too.
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I, for one, have never fully followed the logic behind converting everyone over to a DISTRIBUTED version control system, only to end up hosting the vast majority of useful projects on a CENTRALIZED service.