"GitHub stars won't pay your rent"
No. But they'll give me the satisfaction my day job never will.
GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
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Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Sure, the maintainers have no obligation to review and merge other people's PRs. But when this also applies to genuine high-quality community contributions, I feel like there must be some negative side effects. I'm sure this model works well for an established project like Fody that's already quite highly polished, but I'd be pretty sad if all (or even a significant subset) of…
From the link: But it is MIT, can't I use it for free? Yes all projects are under MIT so the community backing honesty system can be ignored and Fody used for free. Do I need to be a Patron to contribute a Pull Request? Yes. Users must be a Patron to be a user of Fody. Contributing Pull Requests does not cancel this out. It may seem unfair to expect people both contribute PRs and also financially back this project. H…
> Many developers can afford $36 a year
You realize that my dependency stack contains about 2500 dependencies right? If they all follow this model I’m looking at $90k/year just to contribute to a project.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#43As moderator of Reddit, now I question myself why I am doing it for free.
because you value the continued existence/wellbeing of the community
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#44I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
Next time i wind up maintains a large oss effort im going to seriously consider this.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#45And then on the other extreme you have something like substack in, which writing political rants easily earns $50-100k/year in recurring donations even if you are not that famous. It's hard to get people to donate open source projects.
Easily? That’d be a eeally high ranking substack.
not really. Even randos getting 100s of subs, not big names
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#46Classic mistake. FOSS is not about making money. In fact, it's antithetical to making money. Value extraction is the province of closed source/user hostile software, by nature.
A lot of people and companies are making money from Linux, including Linus Torvalds and many kernel hackers. Linux is GPL’d. I think it is hard to make the claim that making money is antithetical to FOSS.
This is quite the definition of an outlier.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#47Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent. Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of a fancy apartment building, and then rent was decided based on GitHub stars. You must collect a certain number of GitHub stars each month to satisfy rent or you get evicted. I wonder what kind of projects would come out of this.
A method to artificially pump up the GitHub star count will be found, but little useful software will be made.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#48"GitHub stars won't pay your rent" No. But they'll give me the satisfaction my day job never will.
I agree. I recently starting contributing to an open source project, really enjoy the feeling of contributing and interacting with other passionate contributors and maintainers.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#49I have been thinking about closing my Github account and moving all my code to gitweb on one of my personal domains. I'm tired of the social/popularity contest aspect of Github and just want to write and publish code that I find interesting. I also want more control and I don't want my code used for AI research like co pilot. I thought about trying source hut, or something similar, but I feel it will end-up just like github once it gets more users.
Has anyone else setup a simple gitweb server on a personal domain? If so, how did it turn out?
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#50I have been thinking about closing my Github account and moving all my code to gitweb on one of my personal domains. I'm tired of the social/popularity contest aspect of Github and just want to write and publish code that I find interesting. I also want more control and I don't want my code used for AI research like co pilot. I thought about trying source hut, or something similar, but I feel it will end-up just like…
how does another platform help you evade copilot? wouldn’t a “lower” platform have to pursue legal routes that are very unpalatable for those lacking deep pockets and legal expertise?