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.<p>(I’m personally working on Bazel rules and contributions to lib/Syntax. If you find that exciting, please get in touch! :)
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.<p>(You can see this happens on >100 of the swift forks :P)
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.<p>("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.)
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’?
> <i>This branch is 48 commits behind apple:master.</i><p>Meh, looks more like a mirror.<p>May even have been accidental. Do you know how they decide what lands under Github's google/ umbrella?
Perhaps this is the start of moving Android Apps to Swift.<p>Which, per rumor was considered last year:<p>"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"<p><a href="https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-swift/" rel="nofollow">https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-sw...</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/930832426548436992" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/930832426548436992</a><p><i>Swift at Google has enough folks working on it that we need a staging ground/integration point, and we decided it should be public.</i>
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?
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.
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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I will really kill google if he messes with my favourite language :(.<p>Sorry for this language but I do not want it to be at google home.<p>You guys do not respect others.