I strongly disagree. GitHub, a year ago, acknowledged the fundamental problems and began work on them. We all agree with the diagnosis and strategy: stop building new things, bring stability. Why would whether the CTO codes have any bearing on the correctness of this strategy? GitHub’s problem isn’t that leadership don’t understand the product, or that they don’t know what they should be doing, it’s that they’re battling unprecedented demand. If it was a disconnect between users and leadership on what matters, sure, a CTO who doesn’t use the product would be notable, but that isn’t the problem. And that’s all assuming he doesn’t actually use the product, maybe his privacy settings hide private commits.

Interesting - There's a couple of things that I disagree with here, but I do think this resonates: "We all agree with the diagnosis and strategy: stop building new things, bring stability."

Where I have a problem with the positioning of their GitHub profile is, he's the CTO of GitHub, arguably the defacto standard for open-source version control systems. His GitHub profile is linked to as the author for the post, and his GitHub profile simply tells me: "this guy doesn't code."

I don't care if this guy doesn't work on GitHub itself, I hardly would expect that, but IMO, any CTO of a company like GitHub should eat, breathe, and sleep code. He might, but his profile, which is being published as if it means anything, tells me he doesn't.

Mine would look the same if you didn't have access to the private repositories I contribute to at work.

Don't contributions to private repositories simply show as: "N contributions in private repositories"?

Here's me: https://github.com/ryanisnan

In other words, I think his private contributions should still manifest on the contribution graph. And for being the CTO of an organization like GitHub, with no open-source contributions... Not a great look.

you have to opt in to private contributions being visible like that