Yeah, GNU/FSF have never put any resources in to GNU social apart from maintaining the general !fs politics worldwide. Originally Evan had startup grants, I just put in my free time (which I barely have any left nowadays) and @diogo got the gsoc stuff.
While I enjoy the !ostatus solution much more than ActivityPub maybr we should see what has been generated "outside" of !gnusocial .) Think of how many people have managed to find their way out on the !fediverse even if it's maybe not via GS specifically. But it's all AGPL .)
I would rather be co-maintainer, I think it is important for GS to have you as the project maintainer, you were there since the beginning and kept the project safe from contradictory ideologies. We all have more or less free time in different seasons. And thus I don't think one should leave his position in a FLOSS just because someone new has more free time for now. Yu have always made clear that I could look for you in case I needed help or were unable to understand something, I think this, the multiple threads were you participate to debate things that concern GS, and the fact that you have been actively using GS is more than enough to prove your active interest in the project despite currently not being able to actively develop or even maintain it.
Yours concerns about big corporations are understandable and I share them (although I won't deny using their services sometimes, I guess I'm a fixer-upper). But sometimes those organizations do good things too and GSoC is an example of that.
My activity past summer in GNU social was sponsored by GSoC, and receiving some income for the time I've dedicated was helpful. I have friends that have to work on the summer in order to help their families. Programs like GSoC allow them to contribute to the FLOSS community while receiving some important money for doing something they enjoy.
GS in GSoC was something I have asked MMN-o for past year but it was ultimately possible thanks to GNU acting as an umbrella organization for its packages. I think GNU understands that GSoC is not something harmful as it brings students to the Open Source world.
I feel that GNU social needs more developers and I believe GSoC can help with that. Finally, even if those developers may help only for the money in the beginning (it wasn't my case but it is legit for the above mentioned reasons), they will eventually fall in love by GS like us and will be helping whenever possible even without the GSoC income. ;)
Hey @mmn ! As I've said in IRC (It seems you aren't there :/ ), I'm looking forward to be a mentor this summer in GS's SoC (as I won't have the required time to participate as a student). Therefore I believe we can host a max of 3 students (me, dansup and you)! ^^
I'm not an OOP fan. I like C a lot, functional langs, etc. I don't care what language you're using. But make sure to use it right, and not mix your C with C++ like it's the same language. If you're using C++, do it right. Likewise with C or anything else.
Don't trust "open source" projects with Contributor License Agreements, they are effectively not open source/free software at all and cannot be trusted or forked in productive ways that eliminate corporate control. (glares at Microsoft with VSCode and Azure)
@xrevan86 Still, I think it's important to keep in mind that the developers are just people, who also have limited time and patience, and we shouldn't keep bothering them just because they haven't yet implemented a feature we need.
I think all the "everyone, comment on this issue so that the devs get it implemented" approach is very ineffective and harmful for both sides. At least in case of small open-source projects which don't really benefit from having a lot of users.
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