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Some naive questions

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 21, 2024 17:52 UTC (Thu) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: Some naive questions by LtWorf
Parent article: PyPI now supports digital attestations

No, this is like "we want projects to use known-good common industry-standard practices, so we tell them to use known-good common industry-standard practices"


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Some naive questions

Posted Nov 22, 2024 17:08 UTC (Fri) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (6 responses)

"We want hobby projects to behave like professional projects, but without salary, but sucking all the fun away and having all the work bureaucracy"

There, I translated it to make it clearer :D

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 22, 2024 19:25 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (5 responses)

If it's a hobby project then why would you care about any of this stuff? This kind of tool is mostly relevant for commercial software vendors who are charging money and need to manage the risks associated with licensing and incorporating FOSS into their products, to encourage them to be more choosy and not randomly grab stuff just because they can without thinking more about the lifecycle and future maintenance. Why else would you care to attest that the source code repository thoroughly describes the CI process unless you need to prove that to a downstream user of your code? If you have users who *need* this for compliance reasons then why can't they contribute to the maintenance manpower required to make it happen?

A lot of people feel social obligations around the code that they freely share and some commercial vendors take advantage of that to treat contributors like employees they don't have to pay, which is a recipe for unnecessary stress and burnout, especially when vendors use FOSS in critical infrastructure, then try to hold individual developers accountable for maintenance when it was the vendors choice to license FOSS in the first place.

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 23, 2024 1:31 UTC (Sat) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (4 responses)

Because people working in companies will happily create bug requests asking for this stuff, and will not even entertain the notion that they might give a helping hand.

I couldn't find a link but a while ago there was a microsoft employee being very vocal and complaining about an issue in some hobby project.

So there's pressure for sure, and of course people love it when their project becomes used.

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 26, 2024 11:37 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (3 responses)

> I couldn't find a link but a while ago there was a microsoft employee being very vocal and complaining about an issue in some hobby project.

I read this as a reference to certain other commenters to this very article, whether you intended it or not (i.e., there is an MS employee in other comments here, and they're somewhat vocal in advocating for process).

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 26, 2024 11:55 UTC (Tue) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (2 responses)

No, it was a different microsoft employee :)

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 26, 2024 13:30 UTC (Tue) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link] (1 responses)

Me reporting the xz backdoor?

Some naive questions

Posted Nov 26, 2024 20:32 UTC (Tue) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

No.

It was something completely out of place. But looking for "microsoft employee rude github" kinda gives too many results to find the event I'm thinking of.


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