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The modal OSS project is a one man band, or at most 2-3 people involved. By the time you get to something large scale there is also quite a bit of bureaucracy t
by mandevil 2y ago
The modal OSS project is a one man band, or at most 2-3 people involved. By the time you get to something large scale there is also quite a bit of bureaucracy there too. Look at something like, to pick something mostly at random, a single project of the Linux Foundation, KernelCI, devoted to building CI for the Linux Kernel. And that has a Technical Steering Committee, ad hoc working groups, differentiation of responsibilities, etc. It has, for all practical purposes, just the sorts of middle management that I'm talking about.