GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

We've been hearing about a lot of drama going on at $2 billion startup GitHub, the hugely important and popular site used by millions of computer programmers where 10 or more executives have departed in recent months.

The more we write about the inner turmoil, the more people step forward to share details and opinions.

"They are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging," this person said.

Sanchez is known for some strong views about diversity. She wrote an article for USA Today shortly before she joined GitHub titled, "More white women does not equal tech diversity."

At one diversity training talk held at a different company and geared toward people of color, she came on a bit stronger with a point that says, "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."

The short answer is they host software projects for programmers.

They store previous versions of the files, make it easy for others around the world to find and download the project, contribute changes, file bug reports, etc...

The left has decided that there are too many male, especially white male, programmers and that the only possible explanation is men are scaring away all the women. It has nothing to do with few women having an interest in programming.

GitHub has even stopped calling itself a meritocracy because it hurts the feelings of women and minorities who haven’t succeeded in software development.

They are essentially online services that allow programmers to store/share source code of projects that they are working on. A lot of the shared libraries that a bunch of software depends on are shared via Github, and it is the primary place folks go to file bug reports on said software or request new functionality.

TFS: Team Foundation Server or Team Foundation Services is a Microsoft alternative to Github, BitBucket, et. al for publicly hosting code.

This has been rebranded as Visual Studio Online and now offers two ways to share code: The Microsoft standard Team Foundation Version Control or Git.

You are partially correct. TFS (Team Foundation Server) is supported by Microsoft as both a cloud software product and on-premises software product. The first gets new functionality more quickly. The latter supports a wider range of functionality for integration with infrastructure. For example, if your organization uses lab environments, advanced reporting, needs work item type customizations & other customizations to your process templates then on-premises makes best sense. What TFS is in a nutshell is a product to provide practically one stop service for integrating all of your important Development/Testing/Management process data/tools in one platform. Too often organizations will be short-sighted and pick a hodgepodge of tools that are disintegrated and then they incur outrageously expensive costs for integrations, maintenance, and even more costs of lost opportunity as their processes get stymied and they aren’t agile/capable to expand & deliver quickly.

TFS is generally used by organizations that are trying to have well-integrated Version Control, Automated Builds, Manual Testing, Automated Testing, robust DevOps, solid requirements management, integration with development/process tools, and flexibility to grow & stay solid as a business.

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