Introducing Octokit

Re:Introducing Octokit by Stratoscope on Friday May 31, 2013 @06:41PM (#5801702)

Well, that's quite a change in branding.

Your sword? Your shield? The cute little octocat is now a scowling angry warrior robot?

I must be old and out of touch: I don't understand the appeal of this violent imagery. I thought GitHub was about working together, helping each other out, not slaying your foes.

I like the old octocat and octokitten better:

http://assets.github.com/images/modules/dashboard/bootcamp/o...

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Re:Introducing Octokit by scott_karana on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:26PM (#5801857)

There have always been loads of Octocat variations[1] of "violent" cartoon characters, such as Wolverine[2]. I don't think anything is intended literally.

1 http://octodex.github.com/

2 http://octodex.github.com/xtocat/

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Re:Introducing Octokit by Stratoscope on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:41PM (#5801904)

Ah, that is a neat collection. Xtocat may be a bit extreme for my taste, but no worries.

I understand that this stuff is all in fun and shouldn't be taken literally, I just had a rather negative gut reaction to the sword and shield and scowling. Maybe it's useful for people to know that this kind of thing will bring up negative reactions in some people. Or maybe not.

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Re:Introducing Octokit by timcameronryan on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:15PM (#5801817)

The Octocat used here and in the API control panel[1] reminds me of robot anime (Gundam Wing, etc.) or perhaps Speed Racer. I don't think it's meant to be warrior-like, but futuristic.

[1] https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/b...

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Re:Introducing Octokit by duvet on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:13PM (#5801811)

the octocats here are a reference to gundam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gundam

I seriously doubt the reference is meant to be violent.

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Re:Introducing Octokit by Stratoscope on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:30PM (#5801870)

Thanks, I appreciate knowing the cultural reference. I figured it must be something along those lines, but wasn't familiar with the specifics.

But... Not meant to be violent? Even if the robocats themselves are not meant to be violent, how could the introductory language about "your sword" and "your shield" be interpreted as anything but violent?

The only time I can imagine needing a sword and shield would be in a rather violent situation. Quite the opposite of the experience one might hope to have on GitHub.

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Re:Introducing Octokit by nsmartt on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:39PM (#5801897)

I see no reference to a shield or a sword. Where do you see that?

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Re:Introducing Octokit by Stratoscope on Friday May 31, 2013 @08:23PM (#5802029)

It's on the page this post was linked to:

https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit

and on the project page:

http://octokit.github.io/

"Is Cocoa your sword? Let this kit be your shield."

Look, I don't mean to read too much into any of this. I just found it a bit unpleasant, that was all. If that observation is useful for anyone, great, if not, my apology for the distraction.

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Re:Introducing Octokit by nsmartt on Friday May 31, 2013 @08:45PM (#5802087)

I missed it entirely. I tried using ctrl + f, but I found nothing because it's an image.

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Re:Introducing Octokit by outside1234 on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:26PM (#5801856)

they'll save the nice imagery for the Javascript library.

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