User avatar
nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
2y
Mood.
Github comment on code issue: It's not unmaintained. I'm just depressed.
5
0
0
0
User avatar
nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
2y
^ This is terrible mood. Only some people can actually get paid to write a code free of cost or close issues. For most, it is the love of labor. Often, people demand fixing issues on Github/Gitlab work for large companies. They don't donate a single penny. The state of FLOSS is terrible. I really hope nobody suffer like this.
4
0
0
0
User avatar
Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
2y
@nixCraft This is the difference between free software and open source – people give for the sake of communities they belong to. Build an inclusive development community, welcoming new users, guiding them for their first bug report, then their first part in maintaining infrastructure, then their first code snippet, and you'll get a thriving development community. This is why you need community organizing – err, women, most of the time, with all due respect toward the men who also involve in this labor.

Build a community that's both a development community and a users community, listening to feedback, similarly to what @bonfire are doing – I've asked them to add the Luciole font to the web UI, Ivan had done it the next day – and you'll get a thriving, truly free software community, and thus, hopefully, enough funding for a part time job.

Giving while I was addicted to Twitter and didn't belong anywhere felt like a heartache, but now I'm giving every month to various NPOs merely because that's work I don't have to do. Without being a feminist myself yet, I've supported feminist mobs, attended to events, and so I'm giving to an NPO that's funding a planned parenthood program in Africa. I've worked with African students so I'm all for local workflows – because I've supported them with Windows 7 netbooks lacking wifi support. If an NPO can either give them refurbish laptops with working wifi, push my university to adopt more free software, or develop, or advocate for, local workflows, then that's work I don't have to do.

I'm even supportive of ProtonMail because they release me of advocating for passwords managers. They provide one, so I'm telling people with a stable income, who can reasonably sustain a 12€/month payment, to either switch to Cozy Cloud or to this email provider, without even fully trusting it.

I'm not claiming this strategy would work with companies, but maybe they'd need to stop treating FLOSS as an infinite pool of half-working, potentially vulnerable libraries. IT is both cultural, technical, and institutional, and Mozilla has put up the SOS fund; Ariadne Connil has written a great post titled “To get a decent supply chain, you must fund it,” asking executives whether they'd rather spend a few thousands dollars every year or face the next massive Nebraska vulnerability. This isn't rocket science, they can just give to the SOS fund, it's already managed by Mozilla. Their infosec is obviously a complicated matter, but one of these in one Stripe donation away.
0
1
0
0