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A _private_ open-source maintainer community _really_ sounds like an oxymoron, right?

• Animats 4y ago
  Is this related to being an MSDN member?[1] Is this another marketing channel to get devs to build for Microsoft target platforms? [1] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile
• eyelidlessness 4y ago
  Does it? I mean this particular offering doesn’t interest me much, but I definitely have private conversations in the course of maintaining open source projects. In some cases it’s just because the conversation itself is private and not everything in my life is public just because the project is. In other cases privacy is important for responsibly handling sensitive issues and giving appropriate time and resources for affected parties to prepare. Even in the spirit of what GitHub seems to be offering here, sometimes projects with some promise fail when they’re blasted all over the web before they’re ready. Having a space to “soft launch” or whatever and get feedback from people who are… you know… not gonna immediately start tearing them down before they even have anything to tear down ahem… might be beneficial for solidifying things before they’re destroyed in their nascent state.