Metrics would help others who may want to rescue the project consider the options. Eg user base would make it clear if there’s an immediate opportunity to work with the author to launch a paid backup service around the project, funding continued work on it.
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#132Plenty of comments of "So sad I have been using this". How many actually contributed back to keep it going?
This is such hackernews comment.
Not everything is about money.
I can use Pgbackrest in my side project which does not generate any money. Maybe my side project is another open source project where no one give me money, but I'm still contributing to the open source ecosystem, maybe I reported bugs which help everyone.
There are so may details and possible reasons to not give money and use open source software, but your negative and naive comment totally miss them.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
If none of the money is yours it means it is not your profit. A license expressed in terms of profit instead of revenue would be suitable for you. I thought a while back there were some products that had dual licenses, a fairly open license for private use, use in small companies, but requiring purchase and/or contribution back when used in something like a cloud providers SaaS. I like open source, but I also can und…
> If none of the money is yours it means it is not your profit. A license expressed in terms of profit instead of revenue would be suitable for you. I like this idea, but the devil is in the details. "profit" is less defined than revenue. You have to specify your accounting principles. What counts as an expense that deducts from revenue to help define profit? It's not impossible, but there's a lot more variance depen…
And even if everything is "legit", plenty of corporations make close to no profit because they're "licensing" or paying whatever other fees to a different company that magically happen to track whatever cash they have on hand at the end of the year.
See all these multinationals paying close to no taxes in the countries where they operate.
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#134Is it really that much effort to maintain something? I’ll admit I haven’t the foggiest, my most maintained thing having like 200 stars or something, but if I leave it alone for half a year it doesn’t suddenly combust into flame.
Motte: if you stop maintaining a project, it won’t become unusable in six months.
Bailey: maintaining a popular project is not that much work.
What?
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#135Wow, this is pretty surprising, I was under the impression that this is the leading PG backup/recovery tool. Anybody know how WAL-G and Barman compare? https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
I dunno how they compare, but we have been using barman for a long time very happily. We test our backups every night, by restoring from barman into a _nightly DB. which we then give out to users as a training/testing spot, so that we know when it breaks. It hasn't broken in many years now. <3
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#136Open Source has worked fine here. The author doesn't find financial support for the work, so they just want to change winds and that's a perfectly fine path forward. If this is really much more than a personal project "for fun, on my leisure time", and it became an actually serious product -level project that provides good value in commercial environments for people, there's clearly an opportunity for a for-profit co…
Something I learned about being a part of an ecosystem: if you want it, you need to support it and help it stay alive.
That applies to local shops as it does open source projects.
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#137Does Postgres no have online backup built in? All of the other major DBMSes do.
See the documentation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup.html
all of these various 3rd party backup tools use these things. Mostly it's QOL stuff that you get from a 3rd party tool. We use barman, very happily: https://pgbarman.org/
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#138Another one bites the dust...
Is it me ore I am seeing more and more projects being unmaintained due to financial and/or mental fatigue?
[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/author/chergert/
[2] https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussio...
[3] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maint...
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I tend to agree with the line of thinking in this thread that the ethos of open source (and the web writ large) have been taken advantage of by capitalism, I can't quite see this: things belong to a time and place in one's life. The creator feels like his time with this project is at an end, but why would that be an impediment to someone who needs a package like this stepping up and maintaining it? Better to do…
> have been taken advantage of by capitalism “And many programmers, they say to me, “The people who hire programmers demand this, this and this. If I don't do those things, I'll starve.” It's literally the word they use. Well, you know, as a waiter, you're not going to starve. So, really, they're in no danger.” - Richard Stallman in 2001 admitting his ideology can’t explain how a programmer can eat In my opinion, tho…
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