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Name some circumstances which justify pulling down a broadly-used open source project like Hpricot. At a certain point it must be admitted that a project has a
by gamache 17y ago
Name some circumstances which justify pulling down a broadly-used open source project like Hpricot. At a certain point it must be admitted that a project has a life beyond its author.
- matthewking 17y agoHe could have had his computer, or email hacked.. have to wait to see if we hear from him before we assume he actually cleared all the accounts himself.
- gamache 17y agoSure, well of course if he got hacked then I am not gonna hold it against him. I just can't imagine anyone targeting _why.
- apotheon 17y agoI can, but only because I'm a cynic.
- sho 17y agoThat explanation seems highly unlikely, especially considering the lack of any messages saying as such. update: I assume I'm being downvoted because people do consider it a likely explanation? It would be utterly unprecedented AFAIK.
- bunnny 17y agoNo, you're being down-voted because you're a selfish arse. Is the primary concern the slight inconvenience his disappearance will cause you?? ... to us, the answer is No.
- TheProkrammer 17y agoThat's why we have DVCS these days.
- gamache 17y agoThe fact that Hpricot used a DVCS is a godsend in cases like this, but we still confront the fact that the software's canonical source, including its documentation, is gone. That Sucks, DVCS or not.
- jsonscripter 17y agoHe got owned?
- rictic 17y agoHe hosted it on git, the source is still out there: http://github.com/defunkt/hpricot/tree/master http://github.com/defunkt/hpricot/tree/master
- biohacker42 17y agoIt could be a dead man's switch. (But I'm really hoping it's not.)
- sho 17y agoInteresting point. I wonder how many people actually implement such things?
- biohacker42 17y agoAn acquaintance of mine did. I had moved to a different state. We kept in occasional email contact. And one day I noticed he had deleted his LinkedIn account. Found him in the obituaries, he had passed on a couple of months before. RIP.
- sho 17y agoWow. Thanks for the story. I hadn't heard any concrete examples of people actually doing that. Well yeah. Let's hope it wasn't that.
- mmelin 17y agoIsn't it more likely that a relative simply requested LinkedIn to delete the account? A LinkedIn account doesn't seem relevant to keep online at all after the person has passed away. Facebook, on the other hand, leaves pages up but with most features disabled except for the wall and photos - something I'm unfortunately familiar with.
- paulreiners 17y agoHow exactly do you implement a dead man's switch for your online accounts? Do you just leave your account info for your estate's executor, lawyer, friend, or whatever and he manually deletes them? Or do you have some script that will automatically run and delete your accounts if you don't tell it not to every week or so? I've often what happens to people's free email addresses after they die. (I suppose nothing in most cases.)
- cheald 17y agoWith all due respect, they were hosted with git, which is by nature distributed. If it's broadly-used, no single person can destroy a repository. Copies of the hpricot repo are all over the internets. I don't disagree that it's inconvenient, but it's not like he nuked a SVN master repository or something.