code cleanup in druntime and phobos

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On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 14:34:49 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 20:21, Kagamin wrote:
>> It comprises a social network in a sense that every user has 
>> his own
>> "diary" - a place to store and share his work, and users can 
>> follow and
>> watch diaries they're interested in, and when they get 
>> notified on
>> updates in the followed diaries, they instantly go there to 
>> like,
>> discuss and comment. And - in case of github - contribute.
>
> I know that, but in Github its not common for people to follow 
> other people. Rather, they follow repositories, or at most, 
> organizations... That takes away a lot of the social aspect of 
> it, since it's not people you are focused on.
> There is also little element of discovering new people through 
> the people you already know (although that is technically 
> possible), it's not a core competency of Github. At most you 
> discover new repositories through the people you follow, but I 
> would reckon even that is not a common workflow. Fundamentally 
> the central unit of the network in Github is a repository (and 
> perhaps organizations). The people unit is very secondary.
>
> Like I said, you can still consider Github to be a social 
> network with a very loose definition of what a social network 
> is, but nonetheless, I consider it significantly different than 
> Facebook/Google+/MySpace/LinkedIn/Twitter/Instagram/tumblr/etc..

It is a social network because it relies on people interaction as 
its most important feature. Without PR discussions / reviews, 
without being able to subscribe to users / repositories and 
without big user base it would not have been that tempting to 
use. You don't go GitHub for its features, you do it for 
potential contributors that can be attracted that way (and won't 
come otherwise). This is a definitive trait of social network.

You seem to interpret "social" aspect very literally here - it is 
not really important if people casually chat and "friend" each 
other. Important thing is that same social processes fuel it as 
ones that were studied in "traditional" social network - large 
user base that generates content for each other and naturally 
encourages each other to stay.