On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:03:59 -0800 Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> <rant> > A funny deficiency of GitHub is it doesn't allow for open conversations. > You're always forced to talk about something directly related to the > code, like an Issue or a Commit. Gists can be somewhat analogous to an > open discussion, but that strikes me as abuse of the medium. > Additionally, it's not a threaded format so it's hard to guess which > branch of conversation you're on. > > Of course sometimes you *want* to focus strictly on the code, but that's > not how real-world organizations work. They're made of people, and most > people end up talking about things *around* the code that are still > important, like the various RFCs that we post here on the ML. None of > what GitHub offers is suitable for that imo. > </rant> GitHub is a code hosting and review tool, not a forum. It's not a replacement for everything ever invented. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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