See https://sopuli.xyz/comment/8474008

The maintainer is a human that needs to eat every day, and not just whenever their services are needed. So at least, the sum of money would need to be a few times higher than whatever labour the fix takes.

But then, the maintainer’s ability to fix these bugs doesn’t come from nowhere. They worked on this project for likely a long time, which would also need to be taken into account when agreeing on a sum.

Further, this would be business to business. And those contracts often include the value that the client gets out of the software. So if Microsoft makes billions from this open source library, then the maintainer’s - as a business - should receive a payment that reflects this for the fix.

All that implies that a few thousand is not nearly enough. Maybe 100k and the maintainer would budge.

The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.

They’ll probably cancel that feature well ahead of your death.

Someone creates an alternative that is federated by default, like Lemmy. But additionally it is fault tolerant, i.e. if one instance goes down, my account will still live on on another, and so will the repositories and all their associated data.

This is the world I want to live in.

psudo

Holiday season?

Usually, also people who write in issues or discuss things are counted as contributors, but there it is pretty hard to figure out who contributed to this specific release

So many people got it right that the ones who got it wrong really stand out

I love postgres, but I really hope someone creates a new rdbms in Rust that supports distributed operation but still has serialisable transactions as default.

What is this useful for?

Technology advances. Both theory of programming languages as well as their practical implementations are large fields of research with many people working on it.

Software is so much at the core of everything today that making its development cheaper is extremely lucrative.

Beautiful.

https://www.theregister.com/2018/10/22/sqlite_code_of_conduct/

They are serious about the religious stuff. And someone who kicks the concept of a code of conduct with their feet like this is surely not a person that is nice to be around.

From their “code of ethics”

• First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength.
• Deny oneself in order to follow Christ.
• Fulfill not the desires of the flesh; hate your own will.

There are even more strange ones, but I hope you get the picture. Reason enough to use something else if possible.

Maybe fraction between money spent on writing code versus money spent on testing code?