Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
We need better tools for uncovering phantom binary dependencies. Not having these tools makes our global tech infrastructure less secure, and puts a strain on the Open Source maintainers we rely on.
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!
Josh has a discussion with Vlad-Stefan Harbuz about the Open Source Pledge as well as his recent FOSDEM talk. The Open Source Pledge is all about trying to build a sustainable universe for open source maintainers. This ties into Vlad’s FOSDEM talk which was all about the challenge of just knowing what open source you are using. The importance of trying to make open source sustainable is a really important topic, but it’s also a really hard topic. Vlad helps explain all of this as well as some ideas for the solving this in the future.
given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow – Linus’s Law A long time ago we thought Linus’s Law was a real thing and it was why open source was better than closed source. It seems pretty accepted now that Linus’s Law wasn’t ever really a thing. It’s far more likely the reason a lot of open source was pretty good is because the authors were worried someone WOULD look and judge them if the code looked like crap. We all have dark corners of private GitHub repos that are the code equivalent of a festering boil.
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!
Building and supporting sustainable small tech on a human scale