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No matter what, tools will be broken. Having access to the source and being able to land a diff to fix the issue is awesome imo.
by tru3_power 2y ago
No matter what, tools will be broken. Having access to the source and being able to land a diff to fix the issue is awesome imo.
- extr 2y agoThat’s how open source already works by default. The difference is if an OSS tool is broken my boss doesn’t imply landing a fix is my responsibility on top of my regular job duties.
- majormajor 2y agoWorking around it is somehow is. A huge part of my work has been plumbing and hacking around limitations in mediocre-at-best OSS tools. Lots of nonserious companies that take those issues as enough of a reason to move slowly. Many fewer serious ones where bad tooling is expected to be fixed, smoothed over, or replaced entirely in the interest of future dev time.
- KaiserPro 2y ago> Having access to the source Yes, thats great. > being able to land a diff to fix the issue is awesome imo. yes, if its a one off. but for my last project that would involve spinning up many "XFNs" (multi-team chat fests) to argue that actually they don't want to have that change because of reason x,y and z. At which point you just give up and make a stupid fucking hack. So much is not about engineering excellence, its about trying to get people to accept change.