2020 Transparency Report

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One of the most disruptive changes was the master-> something else.

Sure the default is now main. But for a few months teams came up with their own standards. Now when I'm working on large scale changes across many systems I continously have too be aware of these new defaults.

trunk main dev develop main prod Canary ...etc this is time I wish I didn't have to spend. The amount of effort I've had to spend has done nothing to benefit race relationships and of course we still have master branches laying around.

> Hacktoberfest, an event designed to encourage people to practice contributing to open source projects, was particularly notable this year due to a third-party video that led to a massive uptick in reports, especially spam and disrupting others’ experiences on GitHub, at the start of October.

Does anyone have a non-gated link to this video?

I don't. I think the gist of it was a YouTuber instructing probably-younger, less-experienced people to issue spammy PRs (e.g. small update to READMEs).

This tweet has a short overview of the video https://twitter.com/joelnet/status/1311773094856454144

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