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A good article making solid points. The bottleneck is indeed scarce maintainer labor. Money is an important factor but not the only factor. I found the Github
by zapita 5y ago
A good article making solid points. The bottleneck is indeed scarce maintainer labor. Money is an important factor but not the only factor.
I found the Github product placement distracting. At the 3d mention of a Github product, I checked, and sure enough: the author works at Github.
- sokoloff 5y agoTo be fair, a lot of open source projects are hosted on GitHub and advising the use of freely available resources to lighten the burden on scarce maintainer labor doesn’t seem outrageous to me. A disclaimer would be appropriate, but the content seemed fine to me.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoThe author is also maintainer of the Homebrew package manager, which has an atypical “funnel” and which practises its own, fairly blunt way of dealing with users. I wouldn’t necessarily extrapolate Homebrew’s experience to other projects.
- mikemcquaid 5y agoFair point here, I've added a caveat in https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/mikemcquaid.com/commit/d7088023d13ed1a797a195425e8a8935aada3ec2 https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/mikemcquaid.com/commit/d70880... Context: - I've only ever been an open source maintainer for projects on GitHub (including before I worked there) - I'd still recommend those tools primarily if I didn't work at GitHub (because of personal preferences to e.g. not run my own servers) - This blog post was a companion to a talk I presented at GitHub's Universe conference this week