Comment by bsder
10 years ago
Distributed revision control users whining about centralized repository lacking features.
Ummm ... anybody getting the irony here?
And, from a GitHub business perspective, why do I hear Lily Tomlin: "We don't care. We don't have to."
Everybody anointed GitHub as "the chosen one" over strenuous objections from some of us that creating another monopoly for open source projects is a bad idea.
Pardon me for enjoying some Schadenfreude now that GitHub leveraged the open-source adoption into corporate contracts and now doesn't have to give two shits about open source folks.
Lily Tomlin's Phone Company Sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgUN_95UAw
I'm an open source project maintainer and share many of the pain points outlined in the document, but I also totally agree with you. Giving control of your project to a company means losing control and having to resort to desperate pleas like this. This is simply what happens when you can't fork it yourself like you could with an open source project.
It's likely that GitHub will alleviate these pain points in time, but the lesson is the same: let a company control your destiny and you can no longer have what you want or need when their interests diverge from yours, even if their system is the best there is and was radically better than everything else at the time you switched to it.