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I suppose, but then you also need to remember no software is bug free (especially not new software). Maintenance is not a step of software development you can

by mjs7231 13y ago

I suppose, but then you also need to remember no software is bug free (especially not new software). Maintenance is not a step of software development you can just gloss over. So the only thing I can think if I were to decide using this software is that I will be happily coding along until something breaks. I'll look for a place to open a bug or issue, and see I can't!? At that point I would just go back to some other properly supported editor.

levosmetalo 13y ago
That's true. But if few more developers start issuing pull requests, then the maintenance team could arise out of that, and project would eventually start to also accept bug reports and feature requests. But in this phase, it's obviously that in this time frame the goal of the main and only developer is to get to the point that he has something that "works for him" and has a solid foundation he likes before making it usable to others. So yes, it's perfectly in the spirit of open source. And no, it's not (yet) production ready for general (non Go coder) audience.
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chongli 13y ago
So the only thing I can think if I were to decide using this software is that I will be happily coding along until something breaks. I'll look for a place to open a bug or issue, and see I can't!? At that point I would just go back to some other properly supported editor. The benefit of free software (open source plus the freedom to modify and distribute) is that you don't have to do this. You can fix the bug yourself and continue on your merry way. There are many, many stories of companies/people that lost thousands (or sometimes millions) of dollars just because they depended on a piece of proprietary software that became unsupported (for whatever reason) and there was nothing they could do about it.

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I suppose, but then you also need to remember no software is bug free (especially not new software). Maintenance is not a step of software development you can

by mjs7231 13y ago

levosmetalo 13y ago
That's true. But if few more developers start issuing pull requests, then the maintenance team could arise out of that, and project would eventually start to also accept bug reports and feature requests. But in this phase, it's obviously that in this time frame the goal of the main and only developer is to get to the point that he has something that "works for him" and has a solid foundation he likes before making it usable to others. So yes, it's perfectly in the spirit of open source. And no, it's not (yet) production ready for general (non Go coder) audience.
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chongli 13y ago
So the only thing I can think if I were to decide using this software is that I will be happily coding along until something breaks. I'll look for a place to open a bug or issue, and see I can't!? At that point I would just go back to some other properly supported editor. The benefit of free software (open source plus the freedom to modify and distribute) is that you don't have to do this. You can fix the bug yourself and continue on your merry way. There are many, many stories of companies/people that lost thousands (or sometimes millions) of dollars just because they depended on a piece of proprietary software that became unsupported (for whatever reason) and there was nothing they could do about it.