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An open source project needs active developers and maintainers in order to stay healthy and grow. Parse is now open source in the sense of "here's a bunch of c
by nodamage 11y ago
An open source project needs active developers and maintainers in order to stay healthy and grow.
Parse is now open source in the sense of "here's a bunch of code we're throwing over the wall on our way out". Presumably (after the 1-year deadline) it's not going to be maintained or further developed by the original Parse team, who are now working for Facebook and will likely be reassigned to other roles.
Who is going to maintain the Parse source after that? A bunch of people that were using Parse specifically because they did not want to write their own backends to begin with?
- ygjb-dupe 11y agoYes open source projects do, and Kinto is currently a well supported project at Mozilla. The folks who made Kinto are awesome, and do awesome things at Mozilla, but my personal experience from working at Mozilla is that Mozilla is an awesome steward of open source projects for users. The devtools team is doing a much better job of becoming stewards of tools for developers, but Mozilla has traditionally been less than ideal steward of projects for use by third parties.
- tbrock 11y agoThe value of Parse is entirely in the client SDKs that would take forever to build and not in the server (which is a simple rest API over MongoDB).
- nodamage 11y agoIt sounds like some of the more valuable aspects of the server (push notifications, dashboard, analytics) weren't open sourced. But the same caveats apply to the client side code.