purple_turtle

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by purple_turtle 5y ago
> NPCI also is pushing heavily to move from a non-profit to a for-profit model This is unlikely to end well.
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
Well, in this case rant was not published by maintainer.
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
ok, there are two different effects in action: - creators are more likely to abandon or ignore projects that have low popularity or are completely unused - creators are more likely to be burned out when there are piles of demands, requests,
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
And, additionally, if someone is unwilling to fix known issues in PR - then they will definitely not fix bugs in it after it become merged. So for maintainers merging PRs with known issue is basically promising to fix everything not finishe
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
It increases complexity of future maintenance, no change is costless.
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845 "Rust Moderation Team Resigns" ?
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
> behave like your project is the Linux kernel or the Rust compiler Yes, misleading claims about project importance would be a bad idea. But decisions like > This _should_ be exactly the type of project where people can get their firs
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
> This _should_ be exactly the type of project where people can get their first OSS programming experience. It is 100% up to maintainer of a given project, they are not obligated to do this. People are 100% free to pursue sky-high reliab
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
Is it a valid reason to ignore known and found problems?
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
And you need to trust project and future project controllers far more.
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
As I understand it: MIT code can be freely taken into proprietary fork, with software modified and sold and no patches contributed. Not sure how often it happens? Has it actually happened and is it a plausible attack? Nowadays at least AGPL
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by purple_turtle 5y ago
1) they could be changing jobs away from being security researcher 2) they can be changing jobs to one that is just unpaid, but they are treated more seriously 3) they could be changing from severely underpaid to just underpaid
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by purple_turtle 6y ago
> If you'd ever done homework or study at all, you don't only have Linux. If something applies to your low quality university it does not mean that it applies everywhere.
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by purple_turtle 7y ago
> You're never going to be able to build real-time traffic maps by manual means OpenStreetMap is not trying to make this specific product.
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by purple_turtle 7y ago
There is StreetComplete (application asking simple questions and making possible to edit without any OpenStreetMap specific knowledge)