Let's have witty communication on GitHub

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Mon, March 17, 2014

We’re doing Pull Request-based development on GitHub, but recently as the development team has grown, communication has become rather formal. (personally speaking)

GitHub
Understood. Thank you.

It felt like templated formal responses.

After continuing this formal atmosphere for a while, a development member told me “Let’s have more relaxed communication!” and I reflected, “Ah, the atmosphere really isn’t good…”

# Excerpt from proposal email

The atmosphere on github etc. is too stiff, so I think it would be good if we could make it as relaxed as a Metal slime.

※ By the way, Metal slime is a nickname for one of our development members.

After the mindset change, it’s like this:

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It somehow feels better.

That’s all from the Gemba.