Comment by sethherr
10 years ago
I guarantee everyone maintaining a large public project on github has private repos and is paying for the service.
Open source ties in with my work. Every one of my private repos has open source dependencies hosted on github.
Privileging the priorities of my private repos over their public dependencies would be shortsighted.
> Privileging the priorities of my private repos over their public dependencies would be shortsighted
I think that’s Github’s call, but I definitely don’t disagree with you and apologize that I came off that way. Open source projects exposed me to Github and greatly benefit the projects I work on in private repos. I really do want those projects to have an effective platform for growth and stability. I don’t want to water down their needs; I just wanted to offer some balance to the discussion.
My point was simply that this probably isn’t something that is as easy for Github to solve as it may appear on the surface. Any changes they make to the issues system can’t upset the low friction way it works for repos with a modest amount of contributors (and +1’s from clients are appreciated). I hope that positive changes come out of this letter.
If Github were to leave Open Source projects high and dry, they’d lose my business.