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A Schelling point is a solution that people converge on without communication. But since youtube-dl already has a lead maintainer, a website, and plenty of othe
by ignoranceprior 6y ago
A Schelling point is a solution that people converge on without communication. But since youtube-dl already has a lead maintainer, a website, and plenty of other ways of coordinating on a solution, I don't see how the concept of "Schelling point" is relevant.
- jasode 6y ago>But since youtube-dl already has a [...] I don't see how the concept of "Schelling point" is relevant. There are multiple Schelling Points. The specific Schelling Point that's uncertain is a widely known place that everybody has converged on for bug reports, discussing issues, pull requests, etc. The Github repo used to serve that purpose but DMCA took it down. Yes, the domain "youtube-dl.org" is _one_ Schelling Point, but there was another Schelling Point for developers' collaboration and Github removed it. Someone said the maintainer moved the repo to Gitlab but the one found by Google search doesn't seem canonical/blessed/official. Even if it is canonical, Gitlab could also remove it because of a DMCA takedown. There doesn't seem to be a slam dunk obvious (and easy) solution for creating stable Schelling Points for developers to collaborate on legally dubious projects like Youtube-dl that's the target of RIAA.