This is getting stupid. Now one can’t even make a reasonable polite question with praise without being asked if they pay.
Bun raised millions of dollars and was acquired by a commercial entity which bragged in the same blog post of reaching $1B. They’re not a guy with an eyepatch and a tin can out on the street.
Open-source developers should be compensated, but they don’t have to be. You can’t reasonably offer your work for free then complain someone isn’t paying you. If you want to be paid, charge for it.
Signed: A long time open-source developer who has dedicated years of full-time work to useful projects without compensation or raising VC money or being acquired.
Come on, whenever a project is discussed on hackernews, there is always one comment of "why are you working on X, when you should be fixing bug Y?!".
We are all software engineers on here (or at least many of us are), we all know how project management and prioritisation works right? We can't work on everything all at once.
> Come on, whenever a project is discussed on hackernews, there is always one comment of "why are you working on X, when you should be fixing bug Y?!".
That is not what the question is about, which you’ll see if you engage with it properly in good faith. There is a single question in the comment (indicated, as one does in English, by a question mark):
> How do you feel about all the constant concerns being raised about the quality of the project lately?
Everything else is context and opinion to explain the question.
given the alleged context, X being something "reported in 2023, still affecting us 3 years later", is this not a reasonable PM / priority decision to question?
Are you being ironic or serious? I can see both pros (encourage people to see themselves as customers) and cons (less initial adoption) to the licensing, although I'd maybe leave bug issues open for everybody.
This is getting stupid. Now one can’t even make a reasonable polite question with praise without being asked if they pay.
Bun raised millions of dollars and was acquired by a commercial entity which bragged in the same blog post of reaching $1B. They’re not a guy with an eyepatch and a tin can out on the street.
Open-source developers should be compensated, but they don’t have to be. You can’t reasonably offer your work for free then complain someone isn’t paying you. If you want to be paid, charge for it.
Signed: A long time open-source developer who has dedicated years of full-time work to useful projects without compensation or raising VC money or being acquired.
Come on, whenever a project is discussed on hackernews, there is always one comment of "why are you working on X, when you should be fixing bug Y?!".
We are all software engineers on here (or at least many of us are), we all know how project management and prioritisation works right? We can't work on everything all at once.
> Come on, whenever a project is discussed on hackernews, there is always one comment of "why are you working on X, when you should be fixing bug Y?!".
That is not what the question is about, which you’ll see if you engage with it properly in good faith. There is a single question in the comment (indicated, as one does in English, by a question mark):
> How do you feel about all the constant concerns being raised about the quality of the project lately?
Everything else is context and opinion to explain the question.
given the alleged context, X being something "reported in 2023, still affecting us 3 years later", is this not a reasonable PM / priority decision to question?
I think the question still deserves a proper answer.
No it doesn't. No opensource dev need to answer anything, if you dont like it, fork it and do the work yourself.
Maybe it can be better phrased as "I think this question doesn't deserve that answer"
No, open-source maintainers don't owe you anything if you don't pay for it
I have similar problems with product I do pay for, and I still get told I have no say. FO/OSS distinction is a red herring.
At some point it need to be made clear; it's not a legal obligation, but a reputational challenge.
Please observe a policy of extreme wisdom: https://github.com/Fody/Home/blob/master/pages/licensing-pat...
Are you being ironic or serious? I can see both pros (encourage people to see themselves as customers) and cons (less initial adoption) to the licensing, although I'd maybe leave bug issues open for everybody.
What aspect do you think dominates?
The answer is because YOU haven’t fixed it yet. Chop chop, we’re all waiting on you.