top | item 45980922 (no title) msh | 3 months ago There is a model, it’s called forking the code. discuss order hn newest tremon|3 months ago Forking the code fractures the community. The discussion at hand focuses on the community, not the code. cortesoft|3 months ago If you feel like you need to fork the code, the community is already fractured.If the community agrees with you that the original author is doing things wrong, and your new approach is better, they will move with you to the fork.If the rest of the community doesn't agree with you, they will stay. If some stay and some go, it means only some of them agreed with you.That's the thing about open source - you don't actually have to form a consensus. You can split off whenever you want. load replies (1) tracker1|3 months ago So does trying to unseat leadership.. forking is just more honest and takes more effort. load replies (1) dmitrygr|3 months ago Until such a time when my compiler learns to take "the community" as input and still produce working binaries as output, things will remain all about the code. C'est la vie.
tremon|3 months ago Forking the code fractures the community. The discussion at hand focuses on the community, not the code. cortesoft|3 months ago If you feel like you need to fork the code, the community is already fractured.If the community agrees with you that the original author is doing things wrong, and your new approach is better, they will move with you to the fork.If the rest of the community doesn't agree with you, they will stay. If some stay and some go, it means only some of them agreed with you.That's the thing about open source - you don't actually have to form a consensus. You can split off whenever you want. load replies (1) tracker1|3 months ago So does trying to unseat leadership.. forking is just more honest and takes more effort. load replies (1) dmitrygr|3 months ago Until such a time when my compiler learns to take "the community" as input and still produce working binaries as output, things will remain all about the code. C'est la vie.
cortesoft|3 months ago If you feel like you need to fork the code, the community is already fractured.If the community agrees with you that the original author is doing things wrong, and your new approach is better, they will move with you to the fork.If the rest of the community doesn't agree with you, they will stay. If some stay and some go, it means only some of them agreed with you.That's the thing about open source - you don't actually have to form a consensus. You can split off whenever you want. load replies (1)
tracker1|3 months ago So does trying to unseat leadership.. forking is just more honest and takes more effort. load replies (1)
dmitrygr|3 months ago Until such a time when my compiler learns to take "the community" as input and still produce working binaries as output, things will remain all about the code. C'est la vie.
tremon|3 months ago
cortesoft|3 months ago
If the community agrees with you that the original author is doing things wrong, and your new approach is better, they will move with you to the fork.
If the rest of the community doesn't agree with you, they will stay. If some stay and some go, it means only some of them agreed with you.
That's the thing about open source - you don't actually have to form a consensus. You can split off whenever you want.
tracker1|3 months ago
dmitrygr|3 months ago