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If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them? In which case, does it really matter? If we need them, and they’re not being maintained, then maybe that
by FridgeSeal 10mo ago
If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them? In which case, does it really matter?
If we need them, and they’re not being maintained, then maybe that’s the kind of “scream test” wake up we need for them to either be properly deprecated, or updated.
- josefx 10mo ago> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them? Given how often issues can be traced back to open source projects barely scraping along? Yes and they are probably doing something important. Hell, if you create enough pointless busywork you can probably get a few more "helpfull" hackers into projects like xz.
- mort96 10mo agoHow much ongoing development effort do you think goes into, say, something like a gzip encoder?
- yxhuvud 10mo agoA gzip encoder has no business deciding whether a socket should wait to fill up packets, however. The list of relevant applications and libraries gets a lot shorter with that restriction.
- mort96 10mo agoIt was a response to the sentiment expressed in: > If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them? Software can have value even when not maintained.