[Arainach]

Build cool shit and follow the proper release procedures for it. There is a huge difference between something unrelated to your employer on a personal repo, youremployerrepo/api-samples, and calling something "Employer Majorproduct CLI" on an official employer repo which is bound to be confused for an official release.

I would have been fired from every employer I've ever worked for of any size for doing something like that - including Google circa 2018.

[DANmode]

> follow the proper release procedures for it

What happens when your thing

or nothing close to your thing

will ever see the light of day?

[no-name-here]

1. If google said ok but don't release under google’s name/in google’s repo, do that.

2. If google said no this goes against our goals for the product, don't release it if you want to keep working for google?

[whstl]

It was clearly greenlighted by management. The person who made the announcement was Addy Osmani, who was manager of the fired developer at the time.

This is in a Google-owned organization, with several other similar repositories, a lot of them using the same API.

[burakemir]

Looks like Addy Osmani is leaving, too.

[sib]

Is that relevant here,

given that Google was creating an official thing

quite close to his thing

at the same time?

(And why are we writing like this?)

[seanhunter]

Fair to point out,

the official google thing,

was quite a lot worse

than his thing.

(I’m quite into the whole “Posting in free verse” idea)

[gedy]

Would you like them

in a house?

Would you like them

with a mouse?

[kazinator]

AI am Sam ...

Sam AI am ...

My program made green eggs and ham ...

[DANmode]

Is there a smell of toast burning where you are?

[DANmode]

> Google was creating an official thing quite close to his thing

Just link to it.

[Arainach]

It's mentioned in the original link for this post.

[Arainach]

None of that is relevant. You're working on things for their employer, they control when and if anything is released. Most of us have worked on projects that were cancelled - even when that happens you don't just release it anyway.

[DANmode]

> they control when and if anything is released

I don’t think that’s how APIs work at all.

Upon reflection, the only thing this guy did wrong was put his name on the thing…

[Suppafly]

>Build cool shit and follow the proper release procedures for it.

By all reasonable measures, they did.