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Re: Navigating a Broken Dev Culture

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stickfigure wrote: post #7

Just FYI: Most jobs in FOSS are corporate jobs. As in, a corporation pays you to work on it, because they publish or sponsor the project. And the "easiest" way to get into that kind of position is to start the project yourself, or already be a major regular contributor. It sounds like you need to find your way into a company that isn't broken. Just start interviewing? Or figure out how to make your current environmen…

thanks for your advice ! , "figure out how to make your current environment less broken." I tried this , it didn't worked there's just too much politics to navigate so I just started looking out for a new job.

Re: Navigating a Broken Dev Culture

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scinse wrote: post #18

> I know going full-time into FOSS isn’t easy What matters is whether it’s important. I spent a lot of time over the years doing FOSS and learned all that code just like all other code atrophies and dies. Maybe it helps you get a job (mine did), and maybe it drives part of the world. But, eventually, it’s probably not important. Don’t worry about FOSS as criteria for a job doing something that is transient. If you’re…

that was deep :/

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francisofascii wrote: post #13

What made management decide to move back to the office?

no clear communication on that , but the back to office mail contained usual points like , collaboration is better in person etc etc , and that we're targeting to achieve big things in this AI wave so we all need to work togther and hence back to office lol ://

Re: Navigating a Broken Dev Culture

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fs_software wrote: post #23

I wonder the rate of which like-minded senior leadership is growing in our industry. If this mindset spreads enough we will probably see many major software issues playing out in our day-to-day lives. Some observations: - This might lead to the job security / market pendulum swing in favor of software developers that we seem to have lost recently. Companies might start paying a premium for those of us who can debug L…

Yup, I resonate with your opinions In fact, we might actually be in the middle of this playing out.

Re: Navigating a Broken Dev Culture

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Post by lightserver »

wink wrote: post #33
dpc_01234 wrote: post #17

I think you confuse "good" with "trendy", as the list of things you want is a bit of a mixed bag. Testing is almost unquestionably a benefit (at least to a point) and is something that can be introduced with minimum initial investments and right away gives big benefits. I'd start with that for low effort, big impact. Then CI (but not CD) is like that too. Just have the test executed on every commit/PR to gain some co…

> Manual SSH into the server, copy the build, and pray Doesn't sound like a script. Also doesn't sound like there's even a build server or CI.

yup none of the above :/
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