GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Thu Jun 7 23:00:43 UTC 2018


On 06/07/2018 04:36 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/6/2018 10:28 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> Keep in mind, if we had been commoditizing and decentralizing 
>> repository hosting, issue tracking, PRs, user accounts, etc. right 
>> from the start like we should've been, then this MS buyout of GitHub 
>> would've been entirely irrelevant to everyone outside GitHub itself. 
>> That's what happens with single points of failure. And the reason 
>> VCSes even went DVCS in the first place.
> 
> Bugzilla for issue tracking is independent of Github.

Yea, it certainly does have that going for it. And I have no real big 
objections to bugzilla. It would be nice, though, if it were better (and 
more cleanly) integrated with GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket/etc., and if its 
data were all distributively stored in git.

Oh, also, just in case I wasn't clear, when I said "if we had been 
commoditizing and decentralizing..." I meant "we" as in the worldwide 
programmer community in general, not the D community specifically.


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