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We don’t appreciate the maintainers much. Look at Linux, Git or any other open source project. The initial inspiration was absolutely needed but continued maint
by innagadadavida 3y ago
We don’t appreciate the maintainers much. Look at Linux, Git or any other open source project. The initial inspiration was absolutely needed but continued maintenance culture is what made them successful and have lasted decades.
- creer 3y agoIt's maintenance but this one is "responsive" maintenance. It's not aiming at the status quo. The current Linux is serving the current mix of Linux applications - much broader and different from the "old" one. It's not just keeping it going until better replaces it. It is ITSELF the better thing that constantly replaces it. Which is all the more admirable. And results is well deserved increased market share. It is "building".
- kragen 3y agofree software licenses means that any person or company can maintain their own fork of linux or git, and if the software is useful to them and nobody else maintains it to their satisfaction, probably will. git means they can easily incorporate the work of other people who are doing the same thing instead of duplicating it the maintainers are doing excellent and praiseworthy work, but this is not just a result of 'culture' but also incentives: if they aren't sufficiently responsive to user needs, they'll quickly find themselves maintaining software with a user base of only themselves the problem with this theory is that it can't explain the absence of successful forks of python 2, wikipedia, and firefox