[gerner]

GitHub Flavored Markdown seems like a nice extension to Markdown to me. Fenced code blocks? Great idea. Lots of other flavors of Markdown do the same thing. I don't know who's the leader or follower here, but I'm glad they're doing it. I'm not sure what's the gold standard for wikis, but they all seem like the kind of thing every vendor has similar, flawed, good-enough solutions for. And I know there are other thoughts around how to manage merges, but having a merge commit (or a squash merge or a fast forward) seems like a reasonable contender for handling a feature branch. But maybe there's something I'm missing? I guess any hegemony is bad for innovation?

Are there a lot of walled gardens that only allow sign-in with GitHub? That's not really an issue I've run into. I can't think of any site I want to invite my aunt/uncle/cousin to log into that only accepts GitHub login. In fact, I'm not sure there's a lot of tools I want my colleagues to use that require a GitHub login that isn't already tied to a GitHub hosted repo.

I would love to hear what I'm missing though.