<story><title>Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft</title><url>https://jeffwilcox.blog/2019/06/scaling-25k/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cshg</author><text>The title makes it sound like the number of employees at Github scaled to 25k. The actual meaning though is that the number of Github contributers &amp;#x2F; participants at Microsoft increased to 25k.&lt;p&gt;Quote:
&amp;quot;At Microsoft today we have almost 25,000 engineers participating in our official GitHub organizations for open source, a great number of them contributing to open source communities throughout GitHub.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Quite misleading IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seldonnn</author><text>I’m not an engineer and read it as the latter, correct meaning. Preposition “on” makes it pretty clear.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft</title><url>https://jeffwilcox.blog/2019/06/scaling-25k/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cshg</author><text>The title makes it sound like the number of employees at Github scaled to 25k. The actual meaning though is that the number of Github contributers &amp;#x2F; participants at Microsoft increased to 25k.&lt;p&gt;Quote:
&amp;quot;At Microsoft today we have almost 25,000 engineers participating in our official GitHub organizations for open source, a great number of them contributing to open source communities throughout GitHub.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Quite misleading IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irjustin</author><text>I was also quite surprised - Why does Github need 25k engineers.... let alone 2k engineers?!</text></comment>