This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).
  • Sagar Acharya
    271·
    2 years ago

    Every open source software has a maintainer. In case of it being maintained by ‘community’, it is maintained by a person who pretends all are included.

    • rollingflower@lemmy.kde.socialdeleted by creator
      11·
      2 years ago

      This. There nearly never is a community, at least in practice. Bigger projects have different roles, but its mostly “if you dont know how to code, you are likely not helping”

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      The more I read about these small, but important projects and their problems, the more I think there should be a fund/foundation to systemically support such projects. Yes, we have the Linux Foundation, but it doesn’t seem to do what I have in mind (maybe for a good reason).

      Open Source software is often enough infrastructure. Linux, OpenSSL, Curl, Apache, etc. are de facto public infrastructure. If any of those would have a severe problem, the economy would literally collapse.

      • Sagar Acharya
        1·
        2 years ago

        Linux kernel is a time sharing system. It’s basic task is to have a list of processes, allocate them to the processor and manage memory by converting physical to logical. This has been done ages ago by devs.

        Every piece of software, and especially server host has a maintainer. They are responsible for everything. In this world of cyber offenses, to evade this, they use cloud or say “community” maintains this.