alt Hacker NewsQuite amusing we have decades of human written code much of it sub standard and yet no one demanded proof till now of Open Source projects having to ‘demonstrate’ anything.
If ya don’t wanna use it, don’t. Simple.
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HPsquared • yesterday at 7:38 AM
Maybe the principal maintainer can be trusted, but pull requests could do with some of that evidence.
I get what you’re saying and agree with the last sentence. Just wanted to touch on the “why” part.
In the world of exclusively human written software the existence of the artefact itself (code, documentation) served as the proof that there’s someone with half a brain behind it. Now that’s not the case anymore.
The conclusion stays though - it’s OSS, authors/maintainers have no obligation to anyone to do anything. Like it, use it, don’t like it, don’t use it.
As for me, I’ve found that the community and activity proxies are still good.