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Re:Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, Sha... by thearn4 on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:21AM (#7277636)
> The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates.

This was the unwritten ritual at my department when I was in graduate school too. But no one there really used VCS. Who knows how long that thing had been passed around and tweaked.

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Re:Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, Sha... by hootener on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:58AM (#7277880)
It's extremely rare to get a student to fork and make pull requests to this template on github, even more version control savvy CS students.

Of all the students I've had email me with problems, a vast majority just grab the repo as a zip and never contribute back. Bummer.

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