Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by jim-greer on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:35AM
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This is a great piece.
I'll quibble with this bit though:
> ...toxicity festers in open source because it’s all too common for forks to ground their motivation in emnity towards other projects.
This is wishful thinking, for the most part. Communities don't break off because things are going well. The American Revolution wouldn't have forked if King George had been sympathetic to their needs.
I'll quibble with this bit though:
> ...toxicity festers in open source because it’s all too common for forks to ground their motivation in emnity towards other projects.
This is wishful thinking, for the most part. Communities don't break off because things are going well. The American Revolution wouldn't have forked if King George had been sympathetic to their needs.