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This is where open source projects with open governance offer peace of mind over proprietary offerings. Community stakeholders get a say in how the project evo
by rectang 9y ago
This is where open source projects with open governance offer peace of mind over proprietary offerings. Community stakeholders get a say in how the project evolves -- decisions are not made solely on what offers the best value for the platform's investors.
- threeseed 9y agoFar more nuance is needed here. There are plenty of open source projects where the decisions and roadmap are decided in private and based on financial motivations. In fact most of the company sponsored projects are like this eg. Spark, Cassandra.
- starshadowx2 9y ago"open source projects with open governance"
- rectang 9y ago> Spark, Cassandra I'm a former Apache board member, and I've worked with contributors to those specific projects on governance issues. I stand by what I said. When it is possible for users to become contributors and gain a governance stake, projects tend to become more dedicated to preserving backwards compatibility. People who are counting on the software get in a position where they can raise a big, loud stink when their interests are threatened. Sometimes projects break compat anyway, but only after traumatic debate. And depending on how the open governance is set up, it can be nearly impossible for the project to be sold out from underneath its users.
- Pharaoh2 9y agoHard part in this case is not the actual build code or even the CI runners, its actually maintaining a mac server farm for your builds. None of the major cloud providers have mac hardware options. Buddybuild and very few other CI systems have iOS and Android support.