Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation

Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by sokoloff on Saturday February 13, 2021 @07:44AM (#26123286)

If python continues to be this popular, there will be more maintainers who join the project.

Surely you’ve seen volunteers join existing projects out of their own interest and need now. The decades that you contributed (thank you, BTW): were those all on projects you started, or did you also join some existing efforts?

I don’t see any reason to think that will stop in 10, 20, or 60 years.

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by josephg on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:22PM (#26127546)

> If python continues to be this popular, there will be more maintainers who join the project.

Will there? I feel like most of the opensource attention flows gradually up stack / toward trendy things on github and away from infrastructure older than github. When heartbleed happened a few years ago it was revealed that OpenSSL was maintained by basically one guy. The same is true of the linux timezone database. Apparently python is mostly 2 people.

I'd put money on this being is a theme for lots of tools we take for granted. How many people work on bash? Or busybox, grub, libpthread or libicu? I bet the number is tiny.

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by sokoloff on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:01PM (#26128674)

Cpython had 5 pull requests opened yesterday. 6 the day before that (from 10 total distinct contributors). That doesn’t seem like a project starving for contributors. If everyone with commit access up and quit, there’d be turmoil for several weeks and something reasonable would emerge.

People want to work on popular, useful things. Python is both of those.

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