Re:What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning
by jrochkind1 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @08:15AM
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I was also unconvinced by your argument that these features relate to bazaar/cathedral.
Even in your linux examples, people still generally recognize an "upstream" and "downstream" (perhaps we could call that a 'lineage'), don't they?
Because, I suggest, a totally decentralized flat horizontal list of repos without any notion of "upstream" and "downstream" isn't actually too useful in practice. I'm not sure that's related to "cathedral" vs "bazaar".
It's possible github encourages 'cathedral' thinking/behavior somehow by the nature of the featureset, but your argument hasn't convinced me of that; or that, even if so, it's intentional.
Even in your linux examples, people still generally recognize an "upstream" and "downstream" (perhaps we could call that a 'lineage'), don't they?
Because, I suggest, a totally decentralized flat horizontal list of repos without any notion of "upstream" and "downstream" isn't actually too useful in practice. I'm not sure that's related to "cathedral" vs "bazaar".
It's possible github encourages 'cathedral' thinking/behavior somehow by the nature of the featureset, but your argument hasn't convinced me of that; or that, even if so, it's intentional.