On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:57:00 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 06/ 2/14 11:43 PM, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > 4. We, as tigervnc maintainers, can comment on these changes. Even on > > individual lines of individual commits. > > The biggest downside I've seen with github is that anyone can comment > on commits and pull requests, so if a commit triggers the trolls, it > can become a total shitshow. (Most recent example, django's change > of "master/slave" to "primary/replica" in their docs, but there's been > enough others too.) Github says they're working on better moderation > tools, but just be warned, you're always just one particularly stupid > typo away from having your repo turn into: > > https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commit/a047be85247755cdbe0acce6f1dafc8beb84f2ac > > (which as you can see ended up causing the author to abandon the repo > to get away from the endless trolling). >
I'm not sure you can ever fully protect yourself against persistent idiots. But yeah, a way of locking discussion in individual places would probably be helpful in the worst cases. -- Pierre Ossman Software Development Cendio AB http://cendio.com Teknikringen 8 http://twitter.com/ThinLinc 583 30 Linköping http://facebook.com/ThinLinc Phone: +46-13-214600 http://plus.google.com/+CendioThinLinc A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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