by lexlash on 11/15/17, 2:16 AM
Hi! I’m one of the engineers on this. We’ve got some work we’re collaborating on - all of which is going upstream - and we wanted a shared place to stage it while we prepare PRs. I’ll be pushing a statement to our fork tomorrow.
(I’m personally working on Bazel rules and contributions to lib/Syntax. If you find that exciting, please get in touch! :)
by DannyBee on 11/15/17, 2:13 AM
This is being used as a staging place for putting patches so they can be turned into pull requests, nothing more. Sorry to bust any conspiracy theories.
(You can see this happens on >100 of the swift forks :P)
by geofft on 11/15/17, 2:11 AM
Google corporate policy, to the best of my knowledge (I do not and have never worked for Google but I asked lots of questions when evaluating an offer), is that it's significantly easier to let Google retain copyright on your open source work, and if it's on GitHub you have to host your repo at github.com/google if Google retains copyright.
("Forks" with no code changes ending up at the top of HN, as if they signaled a major shift in corpprate strategy, are an excellent example of why I think this is a bad policy. For all we know some Google employee PR'd a typo fix they noticed one weekend and has since deleted the branch.)
by anderskaseorg on 11/15/17, 2:18 AM
Anyone else think it’s dumb that you have to fork a repository just to submit a pull request? Why doesn’t GitHub let you do it in one command like ‘git push origin master:refs/pull/new’?
by AceJohnny2 on 11/15/17, 2:08 AM
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This branch is 48 commits behind apple:master.Meh, looks more like a mirror.
May even have been accidental. Do you know how they decide what lands under Github's google/ umbrella?
by nawtacawp on 11/15/17, 2:07 AM
Perhaps this is the start of moving Android Apps to Swift.
Which, per rumor was considered last year:
"About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands — Google, Facebook and Uber — were at a meeting in London discussing the new language. Sources tell The Next Web that Google is considering making Swift a “first class” language for Android"
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-sw...
by viksit on 11/15/17, 2:39 AM
Can we change the title to “google forked the swift GitHub repo” or somesuch? The current one is rather misleading!
by stablemap on 11/15/17, 4:40 PM
by useranme on 11/15/17, 2:37 AM
I don't know much about Swift. Has anyone written in it something they can demo? Can it write gui and web apps? What's the biggest problem it solves and how do you like the language?
by revelation on 11/15/17, 2:11 AM
There are some 1500 people in the Google organization, so presumably just one of them pressed fork and selected the org accidentally. GitHubs UI makes this super easy.
by startupdiscuss on 11/15/17, 2:47 AM
Great news. Now if they can just make it an option on Android and Chrome and someone builds a front end and a back end framework we’re home free.
by codesternews on 11/15/17, 6:44 AM
If Chris Lattner (Swift Creator) is behind this. I am more than ok, else I do not think this is the process. You should raise proposal to swift community and if it gets accepted you start working on it.
Not other way around. You create fork and try to push and if they does not agree with you. You will say ok we are having our own fork.
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by mastax on 11/15/17, 2:40 AM
Should change the title to "Google has a fork of Swift"
by codesternews on 11/15/17, 7:16 AM
May I know why it's flagged? @Dan or some other person
by incadenza on 11/15/17, 2:10 AM
Maybe for work on their own iOS products? Strange.
by apple4ever on 11/16/17, 7:27 PM
Can they make a MR to fix the terrible syntax?
by moocowtruck on 11/15/17, 2:42 AM
how is this news ... hey look software was forked on github today!
by kvirani on 11/15/17, 2:08 AM
What does this mean in terms of their adoption / integration of the language?
by sidcool on 11/15/17, 12:46 PM
Why is this flagged?
by kcoul on 11/15/17, 2:09 AM
What the fork!
by codesternews on 11/15/17, 6:31 AM
I will really kill google if he messes with my favourite language :(.
Sorry for this language but I do not want it to be at google home.
You guys do not respect others.