> Congratulations: We Now Have Opinions on Your Open Source Contributions
The fallacy here is conflating package maintenance with OSS code authoring. Write code and throw it over the wall? Okay, why not? Package maintenance is another issue. Why wouldn’t people who depend on your packages have opinions on how you maintain them?
> Maybe we can find a future for package indexes where maintainers of packages are not burdened further because the internet started depending on it. It's not the fault of the creator that their creation became popular.
Hopefully this is tongue in cheek. Or else it’s got some very Neil Peart energy.
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can’t pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend
I’m a rockstar but I don’t want to be recognized at a 7/11 (or Tim Hortons).
The fallacy here is conflating package maintenance with OSS code authoring. Write code and throw it over the wall? Okay, why not? Package maintenance is another issue. Why wouldn’t people who depend on your packages have opinions on how you maintain them?
> Maybe we can find a future for package indexes where maintainers of packages are not burdened further because the internet started depending on it. It's not the fault of the creator that their creation became popular.
Hopefully this is tongue in cheek. Or else it’s got some very Neil Peart energy.
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can’t pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend
I’m a rockstar but I don’t want to be recognized at a 7/11 (or Tim Hortons).