I run my own mail server and it's essentially zero work. I have postfix, dovecot, SpamAssassin, and RoundCube, all authenticated via LDAP. It required some upfront configuration, but it has run itself with minimal…
> I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible... It worked back when we had a mailing list, CVS, and a web…
I believe the best tool Github could provide to encourage this would be to make forks subsidiary to the project they're forked from.
I like 0MQ a lot, but this is disingenuous. Let's break it down: > portability Sockets are just as portable, more so on UNIX descendants where one can rely on relatively consistent socket APIs. Beyond that, almost every…
> However, you're essentially taking it as a given that the absolute number of worthwhile projects has dropped thanks to GitHub. Not just dropped -- they're drying up. I can only speak from anecdote (nobody has paid me…
> There are no-fewer quality-obsessed developers participating in the community as a result of GitHub. There is natural attrition of participants in any project; what keeps (or kept) so-called "quality obsessed"…
Renaissance? Open source has never been less healthy. All the previous social constructs around properly documenting, testing, and releasing stable versions of your code have been swept away. Instead we're faced with…
I run my own mail server and it's essentially zero work. I have postfix, dovecot, SpamAssassin, and RoundCube, all authenticated via LDAP. It required some upfront configuration, but it has run itself with minimal…
> I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible... It worked back when we had a mailing list, CVS, and a web…
I believe the best tool Github could provide to encourage this would be to make forks subsidiary to the project they're forked from.
I like 0MQ a lot, but this is disingenuous. Let's break it down: > portability Sockets are just as portable, more so on UNIX descendants where one can rely on relatively consistent socket APIs. Beyond that, almost every…
> However, you're essentially taking it as a given that the absolute number of worthwhile projects has dropped thanks to GitHub. Not just dropped -- they're drying up. I can only speak from anecdote (nobody has paid me…
> There are no-fewer quality-obsessed developers participating in the community as a result of GitHub. There is natural attrition of participants in any project; what keeps (or kept) so-called "quality obsessed"…
Renaissance? Open source has never been less healthy. All the previous social constructs around properly documenting, testing, and releasing stable versions of your code have been swept away. Instead we're faced with…