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>They just don’t care (for a variety of reasons). They don't care because they're not incentivized to care. It will remain like that until maintaining project

• smcin 4y ago
  > It will remain like that until maintaining projects well is at least as good a path to a promotion as creating new projects. But then there's equally a danger of becoming IBM, which would be worse. (In this case, if Google creates something that people need then pull it, then other open-source people can replicate it). I think the sane middleground is for them to clearly identify what's experimental, what may be discontinued/deprecated/pulled, and to communicate those expectations and timeframes, in advance. Even Yahoo did this.
  • mook 4y ago
    > I think the sane middleground is for them to clearly identify what's experimental, what may be discontinued/deprecated/pulled, and to communicate those expectations and timeframes, in advance. That might not work well for Google specifically, thinking about how long GMail was branded as "beta". Also, much of their consumer-facing things need network effects (think their piles of messengers)…