On 8/22/2018 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I don't argue against the usefulness of the features that github provides, but I'm also wary of the fact that it's basically a walled garden -- there's no simple way I know of to extract data like pull requests, comments, cross-references, etc.. I mean, it's *possible* to write a web crawler that does just that, but such functionality is second-class, and one might argue, that it is possible at all is merely a happy accident, since github's very design seems to be geared at drawing people to centralize everything on github. It's not quite at the point of vendor lock-in, but it's certainly uncomfortably close, in my view.
As for github comments, they get echoed to me as emails. So I have an email archive of them.
