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Nice, now we can review someone's open source contributions they usually worked for free on.

asutekku 6y ago
Just because someone worked free on something does not mean it’s suddenly free of criticism. I’d say it’s healthy to criticize even these projects.
- neximo64 6y ago
  When that criticism is one describing a lacking support for someones issue then yes it is a problem. Its basically a way to coerce developers to give free support against bad reviews.
  - asutekku 6y ago
    I don’t think software that has major issues (individual negative feedback about missing features will be filtered out as noise in the average ranking so this does not apply to that) should be left uncriticized just because it is made by someone for free. On the other hand, good software that people like will thrive because of this.
liorgrossman 6y ago
I feel you, as I have tremendous respect and appreciation to open-source maintainers. Nevertheless, I think most developers already "review", critique, and share their opinion of open-source libraries loud and proud. They just don't have a dedicated platform to do that. Like most developers, I've been using dozens of open-source libraries, it's natural that I'll form some sort of opinion about them. If I'm like most developers, I'll even have some very strongly held opinions and preferences. I will like some packages, and hate others. I'll find some documentation great, and other unreadable. I will insist one project is complex, and the other is easy to use. That's all fine. IMHO, the fact that a piece of software was created for free, doesn't mean I shouldn't have the right to express my experience and opinions about that software, good or bad. With Openbase, we just want to give developers the ability to easily learn from the experience of other developers, and share their own experience with various libraries.
- neximo64 6y ago
  I'm curious about whether your project would make more events like what happened with the rust actix-web library. Short story if you're not aware: It is the fastest web library out there, but the maintainer quit open source entirely. I fear projects like yours would just make it worse. This may sound harsh: your rebuttal doesn't really address the issue it just tries to justify 'live with it'

Just because someone worked free on something does not mean it’s suddenly free of criticism. I’d say it’s healthy to criticize even these projects.

neximo64 6y ago
When that criticism is one describing a lacking support for someones issue then yes it is a problem. Its basically a way to coerce developers to give free support against bad reviews.
- asutekku 6y ago
  I don’t think software that has major issues (individual negative feedback about missing features will be filtered out as noise in the average ranking so this does not apply to that) should be left uncriticized just because it is made by someone for free. On the other hand, good software that people like will thrive because of this.

liorgrossman 6y ago

I feel you, as I have tremendous respect and appreciation to open-source maintainers. Nevertheless, I think most developers already "review", critique, and share their opinion of open-source libraries loud and proud. They just don't have a dedicated platform to do that. Like most developers, I've been using dozens of open-source libraries, it's natural that I'll form some sort of opinion about them. If I'm like most developers, I'll even have some very strongly held opinions and preferences. I will like some packages, and hate others. I'll find some documentation great, and other unreadable. I will insist one project is complex, and the other is easy to use. That's all fine. IMHO, the fact that a piece of software was created for free, doesn't mean I shouldn't have the right to express my experience and opinions about that software, good or bad. With Openbase, we just want to give developers the ability to easily learn from the experience of other developers, and share their own experience with various libraries.

neximo64 6y ago
I'm curious about whether your project would make more events like what happened with the rust actix-web library. Short story if you're not aware: It is the fastest web library out there, but the maintainer quit open source entirely. I fear projects like yours would just make it worse. This may sound harsh: your rebuttal doesn't really address the issue it just tries to justify 'live with it'