Ask HN: How would you improve collaboration on Github?

7 points by gunnr15 4 years ago | 3 comments

If they wanted to be “the most COLLABORATIVE technical community in the world”, what would look like to you?

makecheck 4 years ago |

Like Facebook and other networks, the fundamental problem is that you need “everyone” you interact with to move to the new thing at the same time, otherwise the new thing is basically useless.

At this point in time, I feel like the solution is more likely to be based in laws (e.g. “seamless export/migration must be supported”), and not in technology. That way, at least you remove the friction of having to recreate an entire profile, etc. on a new platform, and you “only” have to convince all your friends/colleagues to try migrating to the new thing (automatically).

soueuls 4 years ago | |

But why would tech companies invest money to develop feature whose sole purpose to favor their competitors?

They would be the only industry required to do this, does not make any sense

nateb2022 4 years ago |

Less prerequisites for contributing. A lot of first-time contributors are overwhelmed and turned off by CLA's, style guides, and CI/CD, resulting in mainly corporate contribution to mainly corporate open-source.