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Zero drama is easy when you get paid (a lot) to work on something.
by dom96 2y ago
Zero drama is easy when you get paid (a lot) to work on something.
- muratsu 2y agoHuhhh? Have you ever worked at a large enough company where stakeholder interests are not aligned?
- IshKebab 2y agoThat's private drama. For all we know there has been loads, but it's private so you can't see it.
- ncruces 2y agoWhere would you expect to see this drama unfold if it were private? Nowhere? That'd be incredible opsec. Code review happens in public, not on GitHub but on Gerrit. The main issue tracker is public, on GitHub. Proposals are largely handled on the issue tracker. There are public mailing lists, etc. Surely, there are face to face private meetings. And there are likely also private issue trackers, mailing lists, and etc. And, yes, sometimes, a seemingly arbitrary decision pops up, that was clearly discussed elsewhere. But these comments seem to come from people who never even tried to contribute, or deal with the process. I've done docs fixes as a total newb, had to convince the Windows maintainer to let me fix a Windows issue (that a year later produced flaky tests, which I fixed), made and got a proposal accepted, have a project in the linkname hall-of-shame, which led to another successful proposal to open up APIs (which then failed tests on some platforms, which I fixed). All with little drama, pure engineering.
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- ein0p 2y agoThat’s unfair. There’s plenty of drama in projects with all sorts of funding situations. Look at eg Rust. Lots of drama and it’s anyone’s guess if the code you wrote a year ago would work today.
- lkirkwood 2y ago> It's anyone's guess if the code you wrote a year ago would work today Is that true? In what sense? I was under the impression the editions took care of that.
- seeekr 2y agoNot true, not sure why GP said that. Been writing Rust for many years and code does not just break on compiler upgrades. Super stable overall, including the wonderfully evolving ecosystem!
- sangnoir 2y agoAnd yet we've had lots of drama in Linux and Redhat mailing lists, involving people paid to work on the respective projects, and using their work email.
- goalonetwo 2y agoI would rather say that it is easy to have zero drama when most of the committers come from a single large companies.
- Maxatar 2y agoGetting paid has nothing to do with drama. Plenty of high paid people get involved in drama and infighting across all walks of life including tech.
- segfaltnh 2y agoPretty sure Musk gets a decent paycheck, and manages to be involved in plenty of drama.