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Ask HN: Does anyone know what’s happening at GitHub?

Author: mandeepj

Score: 11

Comments: 12

Date: 2021-12-04 19:30:11

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redleader55 wrote at 2021-12-04 22:21:54:

Microsoft has a lightweight "code storage" platform - GitHub and a heavyweight "code storage" platform - Azure DevOps. I see them unifying in the future, ideally taking the good from both platforms, but very likely in a way that allows the company to optimize cost, whatever that means. Either there was no need for a CEO/COO at GitHub, or they were not the best to make this transition, or they didn't agree to the direction in which GitHub is going.

ksec wrote at 2021-12-04 21:18:28:

I dont know. But I think it is quite normal during these sort of transition. Because if she was a CEO candidate and she loss may be its better to leave than to stick around. So probably just some power play. Not a change in strategic direction.

smoldesu wrote at 2021-12-04 19:42:46:

Looks like it's little more than corporate churn to me. Dotnet has been a bit of a clusterfsck for the past few years, I can imagine anyone with their name associated with it being in the hot-seat so to speak, especially working at a website that for the most part sustains open source development.

poetically wrote at 2021-12-04 19:36:17:

Why do you care? It's not like GitHub is going to be any different. It will still continue to host your code.

spinningslate wrote at 2021-12-04 19:51:14:

Why do you not care? Github hosts a huge volume of code. It's also owned by Microsoft. To date, Microsoft has been pretty hands off in their ownership. But now the CEO and COO are gone, at the same time as Microsoft is ramping up its offensives on other fronts [0], [1].

Related? Maybe not. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask if there's anything significant in the CEO and COO leaving in close succession given the impact of a change in policy.

[0]

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4041527/microsoft-edge-prom...

[1]

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/12/microsoft-blocks-other-bro...

[1]

ianceicys wrote at 2021-12-04 20:46:36:

Microsoft already reversed course on the browser changes, already in the insider builds.

[1]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...

With GitHub, I doubt much of anything will change. In 5-10 years then yes I forsee massive industry changes...think of commiting your code in the meta-verse or in VR using Apple Glass. Git as a protocol arrived in what 2008, surely by 2038 we will all be using some different protocol. Change happens.

poetically wrote at 2021-12-04 20:26:19:

Seems like a waste of time to worry about such things.

jimmyvalmer wrote at 2021-12-04 19:54:30:

If the president and vice president left office, I'm pretty sure my life

wouldn't change either. I still care though.

altdataseller wrote at 2021-12-04 22:48:42:

If it doesn’t change, why would u care?

poetically wrote at 2021-12-04 20:25:49:

I'm pretty sure that would make a huge difference vs Microsoft shuffling the people that preside over basic code hosting services.

jimmyvalmer wrote at 2021-12-04 21:11:37:

You're right. When Trump and Pence left office, my entertainment news took a massive hit.

poetically wrote at 2021-12-04 22:15:25:

I wouldn't know. I don't really follow politics, seems like a waste of time.