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Comment by thameera | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone have a source for this news beyond the TNW article that's being shared everywhere? I couldn't find any official announcement from GitHub.

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I'm the author of this post. The article has been updated to clarify that I accidentally published it one day before the embargo lifted. GitHub will formally announce the news tomorrow.

Confusingly it is also dated on the 5th making it look like it should have been announced yesterday...

Yeah, I know. For some reason, when you put a past date in Wordpress and press "schedule," it publishes the article automatically. That's all this was -- a typo.

That's really unfortunate :(

I'd be interested to see if you do a post-mortem on this - what the consequences were, and what steps you end up taking to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

The upshot may well be that this gentleman and/or this publication no longer receives embargoed information anymore, at least for a time.

I don't know if that's an "upshot", but I'd be interested to know if that happens.

One way to help ensure that it doesn't happen is to take steps to prevent it and post a post-mortem explaining both what caused it to happen and why it won't in the future.

I would've deleted it as soon as you noticed. Might not have stopped people from noticing (nothing on the internet is ever deleted blah blah), but might have improved the optics a bit.

I am also curious why he didn't remove the post as soon as he noticed? Does TNW have policies regarding published stories not being removed?

GitHub should publish the post today after noticing this and remove the embargo for other publications.

The news is now public.

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

Too bad HN doesn't allow following users. :-D

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