Tag: github
- Why I think "Sponsor Only" repositories introduced by Github is a terrible idea (03 Feb 2022)
Today morning, I woke up to this dull news that Github is soon going to introduce “Sponsor Only” feature, which means the ability for an open source project to hide its source code from everyone except the one who sponsors them. This incident shouldn’t be taken in isolation but as...
- Two years later, the reasons for Microsoft's Github acquisition still remain a mystery (28 Jul 2020)
More than two years have passed since I shared my perspective on Microsoft’s Github acquisition in this blog post earlier, and the point still stands today. Why did Microsoft decide to acquire a startup company much smaller in size which had no viable and long term revenue/profit generation model? If...
- Announcing gh_announce - A python bot that posts a tweet each time you make a release on github (27 Jun 2019)
I happen to maintain a lot of python projects on github such as distroverify and vtscan. And each time I make a tagged release on Github, I have to make a status tweet like this to let people know: So today I thought why not automate this process by writing...
- People migrating from Github to Gitlab should learn about these details first (11 Jun 2018)
After Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Github, a mass exodus has kind of begun and many small and large projects are moving their code bases to the much hyped Gitlab in a hurry, and these include both open and closed source projects. However, before migrating to Gitlab, they should take a...
- Microsoft's Github acquisition - A perspective (08 Jun 2018)
As someone who has worked on Microsoft tooling since the days of Foxpro 2.6 to Visual Studio 2010 in IT career, and yet ditched them all for PHP, Python and open source years later, I think I am qualified to offer a somewhat neutral or objective perspective on this acquisition....