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You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now

Thomas Depierre · 1 Apr 2024 · softwaremaxims.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Most of the code the world runs on is maintained by hobbyists with an hour or two a month, so any proposal that needs more than that will simply be ignored.

    Their wordsIt means that anything you offer must fit in 1h per month. That is it. And if it does not, if it needs more involvement than that, we, as maintainers, will not do it. At all.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Any plan for open source sustainability or security that is not built around hobbyist maintainers will achieve nothing.

    Their wordsIf your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.
    Interesting

  3. Our reading

    Veterans of the 1990s free software movement do not understand the world today’s maintainers work in, and should listen before proposing fixes for it.

    Their wordsThis is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
    Interesting