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I found parts of that announcement very difficult to follow. Can anyone tell me what the following means? « For too long, open source as both an industry and
by mjw1007 6y ago
I found parts of that announcement very difficult to follow.
Can anyone tell me what the following means?
« For too long, open source as both an industry and a community has done a poor audit of its expenses. Notably, ignoring the price of what I’d controversially argue is the core value proposition of open source software: the freedom to collaborate. »
- picardo 6y agoJust a throwaway line, written, no doubt, in a fit of high-mindedness.
- Rusky 6y agoI read it as a reference to the problem of maintainer burnout in the face of unbounded input from users and collaborators. This is something the Rust project has been dealing with and thinking about for a while.
- muricula 6y agoHere's my take: Collaborating in the open and communicating the results of discussions and the rationales for decisions to the wider community who wasn't present for the discussions has a high time cost. It seems the core rust team has put a lot of effort into making decisions in the open, which increases freedom to collaborate.