MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by serve_yay on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:34PM (#9229336)

I thought it was funny, why are people so touchy about it?

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by MichaelApproved on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:51PM (#9229400)

PR are not the place for jokes. Developers have enough to do managing their projects, they don't need to waste time sorting through jokes.

You might say, "it's just one joke, what's the big deal?" One joke, attracts others. Everyone thinks they're funny and their joke with worth everyone else's time to read it. If PR become a place that's acceptable to make jokes, it'll be flooded with noise.

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by integraton on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @10:59PM (#9229987)

> PR are not the place for jokes.

There's a well-established tradition of pull requests and issues being used for commentary and humor.

Here's a selection. The first one is by the founder CEO of a company with a ~$1B valuation that's prepping for an IPO and is very similar to the one everyone here is complaining about. The second one has comments from a couple well-known tech folks. And so on...

https://github.com/saberma/shopqi/pull/409

https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1074

https://github.com/ericf/yui3-gallery/pull/21

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues

https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/2472

But apparently now that Microsoft is using GitHub, everything is Serious Business™? Is there a dress code now, too?

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by urda on Thursday March 19, 2015 @06:33PM (#9235025)

Yeah those were all unhelpful, trash. Our point exactly.

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by urda on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:37AM (#9230232)

... uh GitHub Pull Requests are not a place for jokes that's why.

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