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The thing I have trouble reconciling is a few of you saying 90+% percent of OSS community is great/friendly but the OSS survey in article showing most projects
by nickpsecurity 10y ago
The thing I have trouble reconciling is a few of you saying 90+% percent of OSS community is great/friendly but the OSS survey in article showing most projects get virtually no help even if downloaded a lot or with lots of requests. It would seem most FOSS users were selfish freeloaders who talked nicely on forums. Your project might attract different types of users, though.
- kazinator 10y agoI write OSS, and also use a lot of it without helping it. That's the idea. OSS can work just fine if we put together N developers, each working alone on exactly one of N projects, while using the other N-1 without helping them. The developer is helping the N-1 by working on his/her project which they all use.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI like that. I just dont think most FOSS users are doing that. We could start with number of Apache or Linux users vs number who are FOSS contributors. My model says the disparity would be multiples or exponentially different.
- kazinator 10y agoThe throng of non-programming users is valuable; they provide free testing. Also, they create a feeling of importance.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoTesting is objectively valuable so long as they send good bug reports. I havent seen a metric on amount of gripes vs actionable reports. That would be interesting data point.