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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by AlexCoventry on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:48PM (#17224175)
What social network? The stars and follows? Does anyone actually care about them? Why? I've never seen the point.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by pimlottc on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:18AM (#17227947)
They’re a decent measure of the reputation and stability of a project. I also use the stars to bookmark my projects for later.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Fice on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:49PM (#17233731)
The developer identities that link developer activity across all projects, the network of forks.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gdamjan1 on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:33AM (#17226400)
forks, pull requests and review comments
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by AlexCoventry on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:44AM (#17227711)
Not much of a network effect, there. You go where the code base you want to participate in is.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Fice on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:58PM (#17233789)
It's harder to find contributors for a project that is not hosted on GitHub.
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