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I really like the author’s listing of advantages open source provides that you just don’t get with closed source, it aligns very closely with my point of view.
by sakjur 2y ago
I really like the author’s listing of advantages open source provides that you just don’t get with closed source, it aligns very closely with my point of view. This is great reference material for my little archive of “read this to understand my point of view”.
I’m also skeptical to what GitHub’s social coding concept has done to maintainership in general. There are projects that don’t need frequent updates, and projects that benefit from being the vision of a single person. Critiquing maintainers for refusing to let others in puts unnecessary pressure on people who just want to share something they’ve made with others.
- faresahmed 2y agoReminds me of Linus' comments[1][2] on pull requests in the kernel's GitHub mirror. The fact that you can't disable pull requests give the impression that it's mandatory to allow anyone to request changes and for you to review them. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7 [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
- sakjur 2y agoYeah, especially as you can disable all the other tabs (beyond code). I think that’s been successful in encouraging open contribution projects, but that has also impacted the notion of what open source means to people in a way that isn’t just good.