What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if
there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know
it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad?
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Aditya Goturu <aditya3098_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there
> is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or
> do you mean the community of github is bad?
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:41 PM, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:09:25 +0800
>> Ivan Tham <ivanthamjunhoe_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ivan,
>>
>> > I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized.
>> > I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is
>> > better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by
>> > suckless work together in the suckless community. What do you think?
>>
>> GitHub is a deadly cancer infesting the very tissue of what makes up
>> quality software development. GitTorrent though is not affiliated
>> with it, and apart from the worries how to support "pull requests" and
>> other bullcrap, it's just a fundamental idea based on vanilla git.
>>
>> Now, regarding GitTorrent: Decentralizing is cool, but it's just too
>> complex to handle for most people. I've been into this area for some
>> time now, but I'm still not able to explain blockchains to a newbie,
>> which indicates that I'm still not intuitively handling this topic.
>> Same applies here: A central point, a server, can be a weak spot and
>> for large datasets, going decentral is very cool!
>> In the end though, same as with torrents (I only torrent the Debian
>> Live CDs/DVDs and other non copyright stuff of course (;), if a
>> torrent is not seeded, it will die.
>> Nowadays, if you want to keep a torrent service running as ideally as
>> on the paper (namely, people seeding back to a ratio of >1) you have
>> to force them into it by punishing those who just leech.
>> In the end, torrents which nobody downloads are less likely to be
>> seeded. And looking at suckless, we have numerous git-repos which just
>> are not that popular to begin with.
>>
>> The big problem I see is authentication, which has already been
>> discussed in the article. Using and developing blockchains is not
>> easy and this leads to errors which I'm personally not keen on handling.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> FRIGN
>>
>> --
>> FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
>>
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> --
> Aditya Goturu
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> down the highway.
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Received on Sun May 31 2015 - 19:47:39 CEST