Do you all really have your random public git repos accidentally being used in production by Facebook? No one’s ever made one of my one-commit git repos a key component of corporate infrastructure.
replyOr do you mean that the meaning of what it is to “publish” something has shifted?
Exactly, I’m confused why people are feeling obligated to put more effort than they have interest for these projects. If Facebook did start using my project in production, then that would of course be their dumb decision that they would be responsible to fix!
replyI still publish everything. If someone wants to come and ask me to do something they can happily find out I likely will not.
reply> I'd happily share if "share" still meant "drop a gist." It doesn't, anymore.
replyIt still does. Feel free to use https://unmaintained.tech/ on your repo.
Love this. Gonna add it to a few of mine that are quasi abandoned because I'm too burned-out to wade back into them in any detail, per one of the categories described in the article.
reply> The work of running an open-source project (issue triage, security disclosures, contribution guidelines, CI, release cadence, dependency maintenance) is way higher than the work of solving the original problem.
replySome tools I use, like msmtp[0] just publish tarballs and maybe have git repo browser. I strongly believe that github is a tarpit for opensource work. Especially when a new developer is brainwashed in behaving like they’re a business under contract.