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).
  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    6 months ago

    I always admire the people taking a lot of their free time to do something beneficial for the community.

    Be it as a maintainer, a small basketball coach. a village politician.

    I’ve always thought about one day giving back everything I’ve received like that, but I haven’t done yet. Right now I have excuses with a difficult parental situation, but there has been many moments where I could and I just haven’t.

    So congratulations and thanks to the ones doing it 👍

  • Sagar Acharya@sopuli.xyz
    21·
    6 months 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.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    1·
    6 months ago

    Slightly unrelated but it kind of reminds me of a guest room I used to have.

    I had this tiny but amazing little room in the center of an expensive city. Walking distance from station. Large balcony. Large windows with sun. Blackout curtains. Silent. Pretty wooden desk. Ample storage space. Mirror. Shiny clean. Lots of features, basically!

    Couchsurfers were always so deeply thankful and I’ve never had any real issues. It was fun and rewarding.

    Airbnbers? Oh my god there were some entitled guests. And it was just eur 25 a night! There’s even emotional labor involved because you have to take it with a smile or you might end up receiving a bad review and drop out of the search.

    I can’t for a second imagine a surfer acting that way. Just like this article says it’s like they assume there’s this capitalist alienated relationship going on, whereas actually it’s simply a gift.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      1·
      6 months ago

      Same with hostels by the way. Back in the day when I did most of my (basically tramp style) backpacking there were all these cheap nice hostels where you basically couldn’t complain and also would not because you knew these were not run with a commercial mindset.

      These days not so much, but I guess I am becoming an old cynic 😑

  • forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 months ago

    Maybe instead of Torvalds taking lessons on how to be less of an asshole, he should be teaching developers how to be more like him.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      He’s doing the right thing and softening his responses to be more welcoming to new contributors, but it’s still totally understandable when any open source dev loses patience. We have thousands of requests coming at us from all angles and no one has infinite patience.