Gateway to the open-source community
Updated November 26, 2021
Gateway to the open-source community
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with GitHub
Github is being used as a hub for shell or skeleton automation frameworks that cover various languages and tech stacks. These are leveraged for demos presented to prospective clients, or for turn-key starter frameworks for new or existing clients. It is also used by individual engineers who contribute open source solutions that may be used in different situations.
- Excellent user interface that allows for quick assessment.
- Seamless integration with local git configuration.
- Fosters involvement with the open-source community.
- Difficult to permanently remove unwanted files.
- Comments are sufficient to count for repository contributions, which is misleading.
- Notifications can be missed.
- I've been involved in several projects that required me to create specialized JavaScript modules. Github allowed me to host them for free and quickly add them as dependencies.
- Being faced with specific situations that require specialized applications brings you directly into a community of individuals involved in similar predicaments.
- The active open-source community allows you to leverage solutions and knowledge from people involved in similar efforts.
Along with Github, I've used Bitbucket and Gitlab. Bitbucket integrates with FishEye, which allows you to institute Code Reviews and create a viable merge process. Gitlab offers similar built in tools. With Github, I'm not aware of any similar features, but this is likely due to me not having the requirement yet to leverage anything of the sort.