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Hi. I am one of the Linuxbrew maintainers. I understand that this may seem contradictory. Linuxbrew has existed since a few years now (https://github.com/Linux

Hi. I am one of the Linuxbrew maintainers. I understand that this may seem contradictory. Linuxbrew has existed since a few years now (https://github.com/Linuxbrew https://github.com/Linuxbrew). We just merged the linux part of the code into the main brew repo. https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core, where the formula reside, is still a separate project. But we all work closely together. The 4-5 linuxbrew maintainers joined the homebrew team and we are now a single team. This does not add too much work for the initial homebrew maintainers. The scope has grown a little bit, but nothing to be worried about. And the windows part is "just" Linux running on Windows, so actually there is not much difference there. That part is not so well tested though, because we do not have so many users on Windows, but we hope to be able to improve this part if needed. On the other side some decisions have been made lately: less from source builds, less options ... this will reduce our workload too.

daveFNbuck 8y ago
If the scope has grown and you're all a single team, shouldn't that be reflected in the mission statement?
- Hackbraten 8y ago
  While I’m as excited about the Linux part as my fellow maintainers are, I feel it’s important to set reasonable expectations. Currently, about 25 % of Homebrew’s active maintainers work on the Linux/WSL part. I don’t believe that ratio is going to change much during 2019. If Linux and Windows were to become part of Homebrew’s mission statement, it’d be all too easy for Linux/WSL users to interpret that as Homebrew committing to the same level of support to which macOS users are accustomed at this time. I feel there’s no way we’d be able to deliver on that commitment and not disappoint users. We want happy users.

daveFNbuck 8y ago

If the scope has grown and you're all a single team, shouldn't that be reflected in the mission statement?

Hackbraten 8y ago
While I’m as excited about the Linux part as my fellow maintainers are, I feel it’s important to set reasonable expectations. Currently, about 25 % of Homebrew’s active maintainers work on the Linux/WSL part. I don’t believe that ratio is going to change much during 2019. If Linux and Windows were to become part of Homebrew’s mission statement, it’d be all too easy for Linux/WSL users to interpret that as Homebrew committing to the same level of support to which macOS users are accustomed at this time. I feel there’s no way we’d be able to deliver on that commitment and not disappoint users. We want happy users.