• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    But why care? Open source work is volunteer work. I’m not saying it is above criticism, but if truly the only people willing and wanting to work on the project want to make the commits like that as opposed to a single one, who cares? If you strongly believe in topics like this and want to work on the project then go help them out. But like I said, if the only people who actually want to work on the project want to work on it like that, then who cares?

    Does Apache have incentive for the project to seem alive when it isn’t? Maybe? I don’t know. Do I think they’re trying to make it look alive? I feel pretty strongly they aren’t.

    • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      It’s one thing to have a bunch of repos up that a couple of people are pushing around here and there. It’s a totally different thing for a major open source presence to prop up a project instead of retiring it. This isn’t some random project; it’s run by a major org, doesn’t have good contribution flows, and has been struggling since 2013.

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        1 year ago

        There was a security fix in February of 2023. I don’t think no releases for six months warrants going there.

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          1 year ago

          Going where?

          I think you completely missed their point. They were talking about project development and maintenance, not releases.