Comment by jasode
10 years ago
The bullet points of complaints feel like a continuation of Linus Torvald's refusal of github pull requests in May 2012.[1]
Taken all together, it seems like github is on a path of alienating their most valuable members. Github was unresponsive to Linus' feature requests and it turns out that theme continues almost 3 years later.
If github plans to evolve into a full-featured ALM[2] like MS Team Foundation or JIRA instead of being relegated to being just a "dumb" disk backup node for repositories, they have to get these UI workflow issues fixed.
[1]https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_lifecycle_manageme...
I don't see anything wrong with going after the massive amount of smaller project with simple needs, instead of the few large projects & popular projects with very specific needs.
If github evolves to the projects you're mentioning, you'll surely alienate the many more casual users. I personally hate working with the bloated applications you mention.