@evan@o_simardcasanova@thisismissem If a project is no longer very active, and you’re wondering what can be done to help it, then inconveniencing a maintainer who is not as active with PRs is the least of the concerns. The project needs people to work on it or it’s dead. The goal should be to build a core group of contributors, not have sporadic drive-by contributions. That way it’s not all on one person. Including the job of reviewing PRs.
@evan@o_simardcasanova@thisismissem I’m coming at this conversation from the bias of a sole maintainer of a project where I’m doing my best to keep my head above water. I would love have a core team so I don’t always feel so guilty that I’m not doing enough. PRs take time, but what a gift. I’m immensely thankful for every single one. But long term core team members would be better.
@evan@o_simardcasanova More contributors. If one person is working on something, and they slow down, nobody is allowed to complain if nobody is willing to help.
@evan The whole demeaning "It might seem incomprehensible to you, you just don't get it" with an immense sense of superiority. In this case, you're telling me I don't understand what ActivityPub is, and I'm too dumb to understand your question. I take offense to that. Not to you, but that's why I think you could reword what you're trying to say there.
@evan This question is impossible to answer. Benefit of the doubt... of what? If somebody messed up an implementation of ActivityPub, absolutely, they deserve it. We're all trying our best. If somebody built an implementation of ActivityPub to steal our data, advertise to us, harass people, or build spam bots? No absolutely not, we shouldn't let that slide just because they use ActivityPub.
You can’t appoint anybody as anything on The Fediverse. That’s what true decentralization and independence is. I know people incorrectly think Gargron is the president of The Fediverse, but it’s incorrect. Nobody owns The Fediverse, it’s impossible. If you can appoint a single person to oversee it, how can you pretend it’s anything decentralized, independent or open?
If one person is keeping a project alive and is unable to build a long term, sustainable team around the project, relying only on that individual, that project is fragile.
Apropos of nothing, I'd love if I could build a long term, sustainable team around #owncast, if this sparks your interest at all! If I get hit by a bus tonight, Owncast is dead tomorrow.
@roadriverrail It’s a fun toy! And fun to put together! But its usefulness is limited at best for me personally. I’d like to find a use for it though. It’s near impossible to type on, but with two index fingers you can kind of poke around. If you keep your expectations low it’s a novel toy, but I’m not sure it’s worth the price :)
I know nobody is pushing me, but I'm pushing me. I want to build cool shit to solve the challenges streamers have. Every day I'm like "ugh, if I could just give you X! Some day you'll see!".
I'm trying hard to get from under this, and pushing myself harder to get through the smaller updates. I'm also realistic that those things don't stop coming in, but things happen in waves, and I'm sure I'll be able to focus on the big things soon.