Comments on: GitHub is leading us to an opensource renaissance

By: Robby Mcgee

Robby Mcgee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:03:54 +0000

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By: Mc-Kenna.com » GitHub’s importance cannot be understated

Mc-Kenna.com » GitHub’s importance cannot be understated — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:31:23 +0000

[...] etc), to the sheer joy of being able to easily contribute to your favorite projects, to even more people realizing its importance, GitHub has reinvigorated the OSS development world like nothing else in the past almost ten years, [...]

By: mindtangle » Blog Archive » Github: Forking Code

mindtangle » Blog Archive » Github: Forking Code — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:16:12 +0000

[...] I’m finally beginning to grok Git. [...]

By: Gabe da Silveira

Gabe da Silveira — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:55:39 +0000

Couldn’t help but agree with the headline before I clicked through. I’m not sure what is the most killer feature in the stack, but coming from svn recently, this whole thing is almost too good to be true. Offline development, proper merges, easy branching, fast performance, centrally hosted for free, developer social network aspect, forking, fork network viewer, etc.

All I know for sure is that this is waayyyy more exciting than SourceForge ever was, and I was a lot more excitable back then. Git by itself should be compelling to ANYONE using svn, but github is the secret sauce that could pull it over the hump.

By: yan

yan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:31:45 +0000

I agree with Matt, there are plenty of non-Ruby projects and there will be more as the Ruby/Rails community has shown itself to be a bleeding edge early adopter, and that effect will rub off on others around them including communities like Erlang.

What I thought was really great was the development of gitjour (a git over bonjour client/server) during RailsConf. Practically overnight it sprung 15 forks on GitHub with everyone contributing patches. This would not have been possible or as easy prior to GitHub.

By: Matt Todd

Matt Todd — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:10:49 +0000

@Thomas: a breakthrough isn’t defined by who uses it but what it allows those that do use it to do. In this light, GitHub is a breakthrough for creating a central, social mechanism for distributed Git development.

Also, numerous non-Ruby projects are already hosted at GitHub. Look around. But really, it doesn’t matter what languages and projects are using it but that it’s being used well by anybody.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:39:47 +0000

github is definitely great thing for git but I’m not sure if its impact on open source in general will be that big. It’s still too ruby-centric and for a bigger impact it’s necessary that other languages are strongly represented as well.

Maybe if one of the linux window managers or graphics programs like scribus oder inkscape with move to GitHub then I’d call it a breakthrough.