Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by landr0id on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:33PM
(#31627760)
They require you to acknowledge some terms that grant you access to the Unreal Engine source code. They grant it by adding you to their GitHub org which has the engine source code as a private repo.
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by md224 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:01AM
(#31627895)
Maybe it's just me but this seems like a misuse of GitHub orgs...
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by Gigachad on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:00AM
(#31628162)
Is it? How else do you selectively grant access to a repo? Orgs are the normal way, it's just not normal to have a project which is proprietary and somewhat private but available to 400k people.
Github just needs to rethink how tagging all users works and a way to prevent this.
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by chupasaurus on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:14AM
(#31627958)
An org and the team was opened to join in March 2015 4 months before the "secret" team functionality was added. No one cared for 7 years!
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by olingern on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:49AM
(#31628111)
Yeah, seems like a silly way to grant access
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by Angius on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:05AM
(#31628713)
Seeing how there's no other way, well...
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
by activitypea on Sunday June 05, 2022 @09:32AM
(#31630832)
I accepted those terms, and was added to Unreal's repo, but didn't get a notification. I think the mentioned group is some subset of the repo users, but 400k is such a big number that I'm not sure who they could be.