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#StephanieSchaer, directrice de la #DINUM ❤️ #Matrix | #MatrixOrg @matrix
Un discours qui tranche avec la tendance habituelle des États à consommer l'open source sans y contribuer financièrement.
Featuring #AmandineLePape, co-fondatrice de Matrix.org @Amandine
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@evan @hober I agree that is often true, but not always. Sometimes a project is just complete for the time being, and the maintainer is still available to update it as needed. It is an unusual state of being for projects with any significant complexity, but it's worth acknowledging that there's a subtle difference between unmaintained and very stable.
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@evan up for them to decide. Why should someone even have an opinion on how someone should spend their time?
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@evan in my own projects, if i don't keep some momentum they often fizzle out, but i also have to be careful to pace myself or i'll burn out on them as well. the winter months are especially difficult for this for me.
granted, the stakes are pretty low because (afaik) none of them are critical infrastructure. I have in the past had a project I didn't have the time or motivation to continue working on, and ended up abdicating ownership of it to the other person who was contributing to it.
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@evan as much as they want, that’s the whole point of volunteering
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@hober @aeva if it's zero for long enough, the software is unmaintained. They are no longer a maintainer in any meaningful sense, even if they still have write access to the git repo.
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@evan @ted If you think someone is obligated to put work into something despite not being paid, that's called entitlement. If you want to ensure they keep working on something, you should make it worth their while. Otherwise you're just exploiting them and demanding free labor. It's the same thing as "working for exposure".
What their goals are is entirely orthogonal to the question you asked. Your question was broadly applicable. Narrowing the scope is moving the goalposts.
And I say this as someone who's put tens of thousands of hours into FOSS projects without the promise of compensation.
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@aeva yes, exactly. which is why "it depends, anything from zero to infinity" is the only reasonable answer to the pol, as far as I can tell. who am I to even guess?
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@ted I guess I wouldn't call sharing public self-instruction, proof of concepts, or art projects "maintaining" the project. I agree, maintaining software is hard work.
