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Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find a source for their claim that "Two-thirds of the top OSS projects are maintained by one or two people". How ma

Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find a source for their claim that "Two-thirds of the top OSS projects are maintained by one or two people". How many projects? How are they rated "top"? When you make such a bold claim, you should be able to back it up with verifiable sources IMHO. Also, being a Red Hatter that has welcomed thousands of people in our New Hire Orientations, I dare say that we actually do employ quite some developers that continue their good work in a lot of communities. Describing that as "the 1% approach" feels a bit wrong.

cavneb 9y ago
This data comes from a talk given by Nadia Engbhal entitled “Consider the Maintainer”. This data originally comes from here: https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/Truck-Factor/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/Truck-Factor/blob/master/READM...
- jwildeboer 9y ago
  Thanks. Found the slides. But they also don’t give any link to rating criteria or a list of projects. https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintainer https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintain...
ghuntley 9y ago
Nadia left her job in venture capital last May and started work on a thesis. What is not venture backable in tech right now, that tech absolutely cannot do without? Projects that had present, not future, value. Were actively used by Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Netflix, even governments. Directly responsible for tech’s rapid rise, as Mark Suster once explained but they hadn’t captured the financial value they deserved. Capturing of financial value for these projects is extremely important yet isn't realised and can have devastating effects. Remember heartbleed? I encourage you to speak with a maintainer heart to heart of any moderately successful opensource project to tell it like it is. Here's a 4min clip from the PythonAU keynote delivered by Russell Keith Magee that does exactly that. https://youtu.be/0t85TyH-h04 https://youtu.be/0t85TyH-h04 It's a never ending stream of notifications that contain abuse and demands for unpaid work with occasional moments of the highest of highs (ie someone sending you a thankyou postcard via snail mail or asking how they can help you out) Open-source keeps burning out brilliant software engineers. For the longest time opensource has been talked about user freedoms but has been mums the word to "at what cost"? Production is still expensive and the cost is too high. 0) https://youtu.be/VS6IpvTWwkQ https://youtu.be/VS6IpvTWwkQ 1) https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/ https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/r... 2) https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet-s-biggest-blind-spot-b9aa23618c58 https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet... 3) http://nadiaeghbal.com/oss http://nadiaeghbal.com/oss

cavneb 9y ago

This data comes from a talk given by Nadia Engbhal entitled “Consider the Maintainer”. This data originally comes from here: https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/Truck-Factor/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/Truck-Factor/blob/master/READM...

jwildeboer 9y ago
Thanks. Found the slides. But they also don’t give any link to rating criteria or a list of projects. https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintainer https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintain...

ghuntley 9y ago

Nadia left her job in venture capital last May and started work on a thesis. What is not venture backable in tech right now, that tech absolutely cannot do without? Projects that had present, not future, value. Were actively used by Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Netflix, even governments. Directly responsible for tech’s rapid rise, as Mark Suster once explained but they hadn’t captured the financial value they deserved. Capturing of financial value for these projects is extremely important yet isn't realised and can have devastating effects. Remember heartbleed? I encourage you to speak with a maintainer heart to heart of any moderately successful opensource project to tell it like it is. Here's a 4min clip from the PythonAU keynote delivered by Russell Keith Magee that does exactly that. https://youtu.be/0t85TyH-h04 https://youtu.be/0t85TyH-h04 It's a never ending stream of notifications that contain abuse and demands for unpaid work with occasional moments of the highest of highs (ie someone sending you a thankyou postcard via snail mail or asking how they can help you out) Open-source keeps burning out brilliant software engineers. For the longest time opensource has been talked about user freedoms but has been mums the word to "at what cost"? Production is still expensive and the cost is too high. 0) https://youtu.be/VS6IpvTWwkQ https://youtu.be/VS6IpvTWwkQ 1) https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/ https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/r... 2) https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet-s-biggest-blind-spot-b9aa23618c58 https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet... 3) http://nadiaeghbal.com/oss http://nadiaeghbal.com/oss