Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by colbyrussell on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:15PM (#19781647)

I agree with some of what you say—one caveat is that you're still on the hook, for example, for finding out which GitHub URL/repo maps to the project you want to contribute to. In practice, this is roughly on par with the difficulty of finding the link to the self-hosted Bugzilla instance. It's a shame that decentralized single sign-on is still such a disaster, since that's essentially the one thing that GitHub has as a leg up over other options—assuming you've contributed to some other GitHub project before.

To stray outside the lines with some meta-commentary: it's nice to get a well thought out response instead of the sort of kneejerk rooting-for-my-home team that's on display in the wasteland of intellectual dishonesty in the comments below.

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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by tracker1 on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:23PM (#19782257)

I'm not sure it's the same... when I search for issues and contributions... I almost always google for github projectname etc. When it's in GH, usually it's easy enough (unless issues are closed because they're managed with a different repo).

For the most part it's the same workflow. Also, if it's a trivial change (like fixing/appending something in documentation) you don't even need to leave the browser.

Discovery is another issue... it's far more easy to use Github semi-socially than most other platforms. Something I both love and hate is that GH doesn't have a direct message functionality. On the one hand, I wouldn't want to be bothered with a ton of end user emails for the same issues over and over... on another, after you've waited a week for a bug fixing PR, it's not fun either.

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