Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F...
by assaddayinh on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:14PM
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In foss the selector is the merging maintainer. Which is more a gardener than an architect. You need somebody with a vision for a park.
That is what product managers are for; someone to lead the product's direction, ensure quality control, and to instill taste. That requires being able to say when a feature is poorly implemented or outright bad and unnecessary -- it's not always just kinks. The problem is that this collides with the collaborative ethos of open source software. But when it's not done it's the users who suffer.