By private I meant "not accessible to the public". We actually use private
bitbucket repos.

P.

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On 28 August 2013 12:38, Reinier Battenberg <
[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
>
>
> Interesting your commercial programming is on a private git server. (well,
> we have one too).
>
>
>
> We are really trying to move as much of our code off of that server
> though, into the open. So, all the modules & libraries we use are
> maintained whereever they have a public repo (and we collaborate there on
> fixes and enhancements), and only the final configuration of how they all
> blend together (if working for a private party that cares) is private.
>
>
>
> If it were only for the reduction in stress maintaining a big git server,
> its totally worth it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 10:52:48 Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote:
>
> Like Benjamin, I have a private git server since most of my programming
> work is commercial.
>
>
> The open source stuff I contribute to (though I'm not as active as I used
> to be) is mainly SUSE and KDE stuff, and both of those have their own git
> servers. So basically, I wouldn't get a job from my (dormant) github
> profile.
>
>
> Oh well. Poor me.
>
>
> P.
>
>
> --
>
> Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events
> occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given
> credit.
>
>
>
> On 28 August 2013 08:24, Reinier Battenberg <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Let's quote what he says about github & git
>
>
>
> What do you think of github?
>
> It started as a place for mothballing unmaintained and unnecessary
> projects, and that is still most of what is hosted there. But it’s turned
> into a kind of World of Warcraft universe for programmers, where they are
> ranked by their commits and which projects they have trunk privileges on. I
> read about a recruiting company built around the idea that github
> reputation means something, so I guess if you aren’t committing to github
> you won’t be getting a job at the coolest startups. The good old days of
> writing FizzBuzz and moving Mt. Fuji during your interview are over.
>
> It sounds like you’ve soured a little on Git.
>
> The first Git For Dummies and Git Visual Quickstart books are going to be
> out in a couple of months, and that is the beginning of the end as far as
> I’m concerned. Those books mean the end of git expertise and github
> reputation as reliable indicators of geek status. Once a technology is
> adopted by the masses the extreme geeks find something more esoteric. Look
> at what happened to Ruby on Rails. The people stumbling their way through
> Rails to-do list tutorials have never even heard of DHH.
>
>
>
> So, apparently, you are ranked by commits, and which projects you have
> trunk privelidges on.
>
> Would that rank mean anything? And if so, what would it mean?
>
>
>
> (@benjamin, yes, for programmers & sysops that publish their shell scripts
> :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 01:33:48 William Kibira wrote:
>
> In my opinion here is your answer from Linux Torvalds himself.
>
>
> http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=143
>
>
> This is really sad, and hey, i wonder what guys will think after reading
> this.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Benjamin Tayehanpour <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> It depends on what kind of job you are looking for. Obviously, a
> GitHub account would be irrelevant if you aspire to be a professional
> cook or a pilot, but disregarding those obvious exceptions, I could
> very well imagine network administrators who have never read, written,
> or otherwise shown any interest in code. But yeah, it's definitely a
> negative character trait not to have shown interest in programming.
>
> Why specifically GitHub, though? While I do have an account, I don't
> really use it that much. I favour git over cvs/svn/mercurial, but I've
> my own server to push against. There's a certain social aspect with
> GitHub, I suppose, but you could (and I do) get that via mailing lists
> and forums.
>
> My guess is that "GitHub" was short and tweet-friendly, and that "Not
> having shown any interest in programming whatsoever is like not
> showing any typographical interest whatsoever when crafting your
> résumé" was a bit too long to put in a tweet.
>
> On 27 August 2013 21:55, Reinier Battenberg
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Someone I have in extremely high esteem tweeted this.
> >
> > Of the developers on this list that do or do not have a github account:
> do you
> > agree with this? Are there other ways you can prove you are a serious
> > developer?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > rgds,
> >
> > Reinier Battenberg
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