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This implies that a lot of the politicization of open source projects has to do with outsiders making power plays (for in group status or just because narcissis

This implies that a lot of the politicization of open source projects has to do with outsiders making power plays (for in group status or just because narcissism). I think this is part of it, for sure. I also think it can also manifest when parts of the community get trapped in a purity spiral, which is somewhat related but comes from within rather than without. Advice? I don't know. Stay underground and ignore the mobs, they will get bored and move on if you ignore them. Ironically, I think lowering the barriers for involvement in open source has let in a mass of people who have no fucking business being there.

dexen 6y ago
Counting contributors & contributions is about as sensible as counting kLOC and pages of manual. Conway's law about software architecture implies existence of management-space CAP theorem equivalent. Communication suffers combinatorial explosion[1], and graph problems are pretty expensive to solve in meatspace. Attention is an exhaustible resource, and easily DDoSed. [edit] dilandau - please note I've carefully avoided certain spicier keywords & expressions in the previous post as to not off put a casual reader and avoid attracting quick downvotes. The couple spicy keywords in your response end up needlessly detracting a casual reader from the correct point you are making. And I'm not talking about the "fucking" adjective :) -- [1] l = (n-1)*n/2