I think Github goal was to push forward the social aspect of coding, adding features such as commenting and who did what contribution.
It's more oriented towards making it easy to manage for companies.

That's the reason why:

(18-07-2016, 04:37 AM)oxa Wrote: If we're being honest, they allow a standard sized photo (of whatever you like) and some informational bits. The rest of the site is dedicated to the data. It's really not much more than a "Hi My Name Is" and theres no requirements you personalize. But sure, I understand your point. Code is king and more important than the person behind it.

Users need the minimal info there.

Unfortunately, z3bra is right, a lot of people are attracted by fame and will do things to get their name up there.

(18-07-2016, 03:46 AM)z3bra Wrote: Third, their "fork" policy. They make it so easy to steal code from other people that it bother me. The idea behind forking is to make it easier for people to contribute. In the end, it makes it easier for people to get credit for someone else's work.
It's easy to fork and not contribute, and you see that a lot. From personnal experience, a bunch of people forked some of my repos, changed a few things they didn't like, and advertised it as a "Fixed version with less crap" or whatever, without even noticing me about the original issue, or submitting the changes. That is a behavior I hate, and github just makes it too easy to perform.

I don't agree that this is Github specific.
Sure it has made it easier to fork/copy someone else's work but the "stealing" aspect or credits appropriation has been there before in a lot of other places and not only in the programming field.

The social aspect has probably amplified this a bit, especially the hype I discussed before.

On the other hand, this has brought a lot of good stuffs.
Let's not hide under a rock and deny what the popularization of open source has given us today.