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Stuff like this frustrates me from a corporate open source stewardship perspective. Companies love to talk about how they support FOSS during recruiting, but t
by save_ferris 6y ago
Stuff like this frustrates me from a corporate open source stewardship perspective.
Companies love to talk about how they support FOSS during recruiting, but they can't even be bothered to formally update the repository with a deprecation notice when they decide it's no longer in their interest to support a project. And in this case, a lot of people rely on this package.
I don't necessarily think that companies should be expected to maintain OS packages they write forever, but respecting the community by openly communicating their plans for the project instead of making end users figure it out should be the bare minimum for acceptable stewardship.
Just abandoning this project without a heads up is some bush league BS by Netflix.