<story><title>Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment</title><url>http://recode.net/2014/03/15/prominent-github-engineer-julie-ann-horvath-quits-claiming-gender-based-harassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apetresc</author><text>How can I take the article seriously when it says that &amp;quot;GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code&amp;quot;, which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?&lt;p&gt;This author can&amp;#x27;t seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codelap</author><text>Zero percent of this conversation should be about the article, and should entirely be on the validity of the claim against the unhealthy work environment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment</title><url>http://recode.net/2014/03/15/prominent-github-engineer-julie-ann-horvath-quits-claiming-gender-based-harassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apetresc</author><text>How can I take the article seriously when it says that &amp;quot;GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code&amp;quot;, which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?&lt;p&gt;This author can&amp;#x27;t seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Interesting point.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say I am an open source developer and I put some crazy stuff on Github.&lt;p&gt;Some journalist does a profile on me. Am I a &amp;quot;Github Software Developer&amp;quot; to them?&lt;p&gt;* Google Name -- &amp;quot;aha, link to Github&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* Find crazy stuff checked into Github repos.&lt;p&gt;* Google Github -- &amp;quot;aha, technology company something something distributed ... eyes glaze over technical mumbo jumbo&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;* Claim I am a &amp;quot;Github Engineer&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It is obvious to us how it works, but say someone who has no idea about repos or open source will not quite understand the separation between user content and platform.</text></comment>