alt Hacker News> dnsmasq has served me well for like an eternity in multiple setups for different use cases. As all software it has bugs. And once located those get fixed. Its author is also easy to communicate with.
I concur. The last part, however, is quite worrisome. Dnsmasq is ran by one person, published on their own git and I did not see any information about other maintainers.
It is a super important (and great, and useful, and everything) software and i have fears of what will happen one day.
Sure, someone can clone and push to github but it may seriously fragment the ecosystem.
Surprisingly a lot of popular projects are mainly one-person projects.
In my experience projects lead by large corporates burnt me a lot more in the past and caused more serious friction in my setups (e.g. breaking backwards compatibility for the sake of killing 5 lines of code that could cause some extra "development costs".)
Anyway… that's not saying one is better than the other. Trust into a project builds different over time (unrelated to the size of the development team).
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Seeing it here, how someone "shamelessly" (in their own words) adverts their own competing project and then uses dummy accounts to bend the voting and discussion in their favouring… that's definitely NOT how trust is build up. It's something which instantly makes me stay away from a project (better or not).