Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:05:12AM -0700, Aaron Bieber wrote: >> "Knowing" the tools isn't the problem. jcs@ knows how to use tar. I know >> how to use tar. The problem is that people send things totally >> differently and there is no agreed upon "standard". GH would remedy this >> because everything would become a diff - plain text! > > So you want to enforce your "standard", I.E. GitHub, on everybody? > > If we're going to have a "standard", why not make it the lowest common > denominator, so that people who are comfortable with creating their own > tools can easily handle it the way they want to? Which is, basically, > the whole unix philosophy anyway. > >> Also if people don't want to use the GH approach - they don't have to! > > But the use of GitHub would become like a virus, in that it also affects > people who don't want to use it. > >> at no point did jcs suggest that we make everyone get a GH account and >> switch to using it exclusively. > > Go and read the Linux kernel archives from 20 years ago, and the flamewars > over the use of BitKeeper to manage the kernel source. I don't even know how to respond to this. You are saying that GH usage will infect people and then they will be forced to use it? That seems a bit far fetched to me. But maybe that's the mindvirus at work! No idea what linux kernel archievs from 20 years ago have to do with any of this.
