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GitHub Responds to 'Dear GitHub' letter
GitHub has responded to the 'Dear GitHub' letter, with plans of how they propose to address the issues raised in the future.
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GitHub Pages Moves to Jekyll 3.0 to Improve Performance
According to GitHub, Jekyll 3.0 will make GitHub Pages faster and easier to use, though the switch will not be painless for all existing sites due to some features being removed in the process.
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Google Kick-Starts Git Ketch: A Fault-Tolerant Git Management System
Although development has only started, Google has announced their first commits of Git Ketch, a multi-master Git management system that replicates information across multiple Git servers for resilience and scalability. The changes are based on JGit, a Java-based Git server, although other Git servers may be part of the multi-master cluster.
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Git 2.7: a Major New Release with Many New Features and Improvements
Two months after the release of version 2.6, Git 2.7 has been announced, bringing many new features as well as performance improvements.
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Technical Debt and Team Morale when Maintaining a Large System
Thomas Bradford talked about his experience with maintaining a monolith Java based system with zero test coverage and large technical debt at the Agile Testing Days 2015. InfoQ interviewed him about the problems that they had maintaining the system and the technical debt that had been build up, why they decided to take a different approach and how they improved team morale.
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"Dear GitHub…" — An Open Letter to GitHub
A growing group of open source project maintainers, including some of the most popular projects on GitHub, have signed an open letter to express their frustration and complaints about what they experience as a feeling of being ignored and being invisible to GitHub’s eyes. InfoQ has spoken with James Kyle, one of the open letter’s initial signees.
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Python will be Moving to GitHub
Brett Cannon, who is currently in charge of Python's development process, has announced on Python core workflow mailing list that Python will be moving to GitHub. InfoQ has spoken with Brett Cannon to learn more about the benefits that this decision should bring, what the next steps are in the process, and other relevant details.
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The Role of Configuration Management in a Containerized World
The widespread adoption of Docker in infrastructure automation has led to a growing debate as to whether it supersedes configuration management. The consensus seems to be that both will co-exist in a complementary way.
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Best Practices for Open-source Projects
GitHub’s Phil Haack hosted a panel on Channel 9 that focused on best practices for open source projects.
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Rebuild or Refactor?
Should you rebuilding or refactoring software?An interview with Wouter Lagerweij about what it is that makes refactoring so difficult, if rebuilding software is less risky than refactoring, and how continuous delivery fits with rebuilding software.
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More Feature Branching Means Less Continuous Integration
Many teams now implicitly discard continuous integration due to ever-easier feature branching and an under-appreciation of trunk based development says Steve Smith. InfoQ did an interview with him about different branching approaches and how they can be combined with continuous integration, and how using build feature branching can hamper continuous integration and continuous delivery.
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Directing complex IT-landscapes with Agile
Where many organizations use agile to develop IT products, agile principles and practices can also be applied for maintaining landscapes of commercial products. Gert Florijn and Eelco Rommes will talk about directing complex IT-landscapes in public sectors such as healthcare and local and national government organizations at the Agile and Software Architecture Symposium 2015.
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Git 2.6 Brings Many New Features and Improvements
Recently released Git 2.6 brings many new features, improvements to performance and internals, and bug fixes.
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Scaled Scrum at Swiss Postal Services
Swiss Postal Services has used scaled Scrum with seven teams to replace a legacy system. InfoQ interviewed Ralph Jocham about how they scaled Scrum and dealt with legacy issues, using a definition of done, how they managed to deliver their system three months earlier than planned, and the main learnings from the project.
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ZenHub is now Integrated with GitHub Enterprise
ZenHub is a collaboration and project management tool integrated with GitHub. Their latest version is integrated with GitHub Enterprise.