As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)

Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by andreasmetsala on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:58AM (#40944139)

> This was rather disappointing to me. I had really expected better because my colleagues in general were typically pro open source. I'm not using Django anymore, and I'm not inclined to put any personal time into it to keep the project alive.

Why would your colleagues want to maintain your pet project instead of making their own? Most open source projects live or die with their main contributors, if you expected the company to spend money maintaining your project then that’s the wrong expectation in my opinion.

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Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by sjamaan on Friday July 12, 2024 @06:39AM (#40944319)

> Why would your colleagues want to maintain your pet project instead of making their own?

The projects in question were Django model field types, which I used in the larger projects I was working on. I made them available on PyPi so they're re-usable by others, and for easier installation. Maintaining these should be in their own interest, as the projects in which they are used are mission-critical systems for their customers.

Presumably they haven't upgraded their Django in ages, so they didn't need to do any maintenance on these packages. But still, a) they may hit these bugs themselves sooner or later and b) the projects exist under the company's GitHub profile, so it makes them look bad.

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