How we made GitHub fast (2009)

Anybody else think GitHub was more responsive to users and used to create more useful new features before they had $350 million in fun money?

I'm so happy they have a full replica of the oval office to play around inside, but some days it feels like they've abandoned the public interface in exchange for... nobody knows.

How many hundreds of millions of dollars will it take to finally improve the issue tracking system? Can it even be fixed with a hundred million dollars? Maybe it's more of a billion dollar funding problem. Nobody knows anymore.

GitHub makes it easy to drop approved licenses in any project, but what about dropping approved governance models in projects too? These days the governance of a project (roadmap, participation, core committers, sub-committers, issue-resolvers, moderators, time to resolve issues, formal how-to-become-committer processes) is a first-order component of projects too, but everybody is making it up as they go along. It's as if people were hand-writing licenses for each project. Imagine if GitHub had "select your governance model" multi-choice system like they do for licenses? Maybe that requires two billion dollars in funding to get pushed through. Nobody knows anymore.

I'd love to know what this looks like in 2015.

Whatever happened to BERT and BERT-RPC?