Commons Based Peer Production
The GitHub Blog Nov 02 09
ab5tract has a great post looking at GitHub “through the lens of the ethics of commons-based peer production.”
A key quote which puts it in perspective for me is this:
The software further induces virtue in its participants through the `git blame` function, which immediately calls up the person responsible for a commit. In practice it used as much to know who to praise as it is to know who to berate, but it fulfills one of the the paper’s common criteria for extant commons-based peer production: that of a mechanism to mitigate the potential impacts of malicious users. Full story...
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PhpBB on GitHub
The GitHub Blog Mar 09 10
The phpBB team recently completed a move from SVN to Git and are now hosting their repositories on GitHub!
I remember phpBB being one of my first experiences with online programming — trying to setup a forum for my now dead drumming site.
Tracking Deploys with Compare View
The GitHub Blog Mar 09 10
We log a message to Campfire anytime someone deploys code to staging or production. It looks like this:
Recently, we added the link pointing to a Compare View where you can review the commits that were shipped out along with a full diff of changes:
This makes it really easy for everyone to keep tabs on what's being
deployed and encourages on the fly code review.
GitHub Rebase #38
The GitHub Blog Mar 08 10
Welcome to Rebase 38. Suggestions for projects to cover are always welcome, check out the criteria here.
NCSA Mosaic on GitHub
The GitHub Blog Mar 08 10
This is just great: NCSA Mosaic on GitHub at http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic.
This now joins the Quake source as one of my favorite old school projects.
GitHub Drinkup, Peninsula Edition
The GitHub Blog Mar 05 10
It’s about time – the GitHub drinkup is moving to the peninsula! One week only, don’t miss out! If you’re a peninsula dweller like me, join me at CityPub in Redwood City at 8pm next Thursday, March 11.
Introducing GitHub Compare View
The GitHub Blog Mar 01 10
Picking up where Kyle left off in his Branch List post, we're all very
excited to announce a new feature designed to ease the process of
comparing two points in a repository's history.
Branch Lists
The GitHub Blog Mar 01 10
Git's branching model is one of it's best features. Branches are cheap, fast and extremely flexible.
GitHub Rebase #37
The GitHub Blog Mar 01 10
According to git-checkout: “You can make changes and create a new commit on top of a detached HEAD”.
Announcing Ernie 2.0 and 2.1
The GitHub Blog Feb 25 10
Over the past few months I've been working on a major new version of Ernie, the RPC server I wrote to power GitHub's sharded file server architecture.
New Languages Highlighted
The GitHub Blog Feb 23 10
CoffeeScript (.coffee)
Objective-J (.j)
Haml (.haml)
Sass (.sass)
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