@danderson but how can we say "authored 17 RFCs" without doing this
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Niche pet peeve: what is it with recent RFCs spreading a protocol out across half a dozen different documents? You're one protocol, why are you publishing one RFC for your query format, one for your response format, one for your query _protocol_ that c... -
In the wake of the xz exploit, I quipped, “Free software, eh, fine, whatever. What does •sustainable• software look like?”I haven’t heard anybody give a more thoughtful or more useful answer to that question than @jenniferplusplus in this blog post, wh...I don’t think improvements in issue triage would have helped xz, and wouldn’t help a large number of small projects. My own experience of trying to file an issue AND offer code that addresses the issue in OSS projects has been almost universally negative. Often hostile. I only expect that to get worse now because becoming trusted to even offer code is going to be harder.
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In the wake of the xz exploit, I quipped, “Free software, eh, fine, whatever. What does •sustainable• software look like?”I haven’t heard anybody give a more thoughtful or more useful answer to that question than @jenniferplusplus in this blog post, wh...@inthehands I read the post, and I think that the arguments for improving governance only work for medium-large projects. Like Prometheus and larger. That’s probably also the limit where large-scale extraction happens, and also where licensing works to counter extractive behavior. Licensing probably
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In the wake of the xz exploit, I quipped, “Free software, eh, fine, whatever. What does •sustainable• software look like?”I haven’t heard anybody give a more thoughtful or more useful answer to that question than @jenniferplusplus in this blog post, wh...@inthehands I increasingly think that copyleft licenses are the only good way we’ve got against Extraction, but it will probably also reduce the contributor base substantially.