M.-A. Lemburg <mal@...> writes: > On 30.12.2015 20:03, Stefan Krah wrote: > > I don't care if they have been profitable by selling private repos on a > > small/medium scale, the direction they're heading in is quite clear: > > > > Get people (esp. young ones) to work for free on OSS projects using > > gamification, cute icons, "social" coding, and a fake hero-of-work ethos > > fueled by "longest streak" statistics. When these people are ready to enter > > the job market, they can <euphemism>be brought in contact with</euphemism> > > employers. > > FWIW: This business model is already being used by other companies > scraping Github repos, analyzing checkins and then matching what > they find against recruitment offers (basically automated head > hunting). > > The same could be done with any other DVCS repo system, but Github > is currently the most popular one out there. Ohloh, now renamed to > Open Hub, has been doing such analysis for quite a while (with > a different focus, though): > > https://www.openhub.net/p/python/contributors > > That's simply a consequence of having repos out in the open > and not really specific to Github.
GitHub takes this to a new limit: When you create an account, you are being told (gamification-style) how to get dark green squares in your statistics, how to promote yourself using a picture, how to use a single account for private and public repos, how to keep the single account *even when switching companies*! If you happen to work for a company that's on GitHub *and* contribute to volunteer projects there, they basically have a major part of your life on their servers. I don't think OpenHub can match that in any way. I'm not anti-corporate: If Microsoft would make us an offer to manage our infrastructure, I'd rather have a Microsoft account for Python development that a GitHub account. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ core-workflow mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
