Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-26 Thread Martin Tournoij
Thanks all. Hope you all had a nice Christmas :-) Let me reply to all the great feedback in a single email: On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, at 23:26, Jan Bessai wrote: > You might add that keeping things small is crucial for the described way > of operating. Otherwise things are impossible to understand

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-24 Thread Alessandro Pistocchi
I know guys... sorry for that... ;-) Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Dec 2018, at 21:16, Cág wrote: > > Alessandro Pistocchi wrote: >> Agree :-) >> Sent from my iPhone > > Nice signature :) > > > -- > Sent from my Nokia 105 > >

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-24 Thread Cág
Alessandro Pistocchi wrote: Agree :-) Sent from my iPhone Nice signature :) -- Sent from my Nokia 105

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-22 Thread Alessandro Pistocchi
Hi Martin, I am pretty new to the suckless community. I appreciate what you wrote in that post :-) Regarding the diy attitude I agree with you. On the other hand, regarding features and bugs, people sometimes don’t know and they often tend to assume you are a large and evil corporation with a

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-22 Thread Alessandro Pistocchi
Agree :-) Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Dec 2018, at 11:26, Jan Bessai wrote: > >> On 12/22/18 8:57 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:55:51PM +1300, Martin Tournoij wrote: >>> [...] >>> I wrote a brief article about "Open source DIY ethics", which I think >>> describes

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-22 Thread Thomas Levine
I find the article and the subsequent comments from Jan and Sylvain to be very accurate. They have led me to remark that "do-it-yourself" describes my software interests better than "open source" or "free software" does. I am mostly interested in software that works as I want it to. Consequently,

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-22 Thread sylvain . bertrand
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:26:19AM +0100, Jan Bessai wrote: > You might add that keeping things small is crucial for the described way > of operating. Otherwise things are impossible to understand for casual > contributors. Suckless embodies this as a core value. In your analogy > you can DIY fix

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-22 Thread kdsch
Martin, I enjoyed reading your article. I have limited experience contributing to open source projects. I remember reporting a bug to the Upspin mailing list. I wasn't expected to fix it; the team reacted quickly and was prepared to take advantage of my observations. This is atypical, and I'm

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-22 Thread Jan Bessai
On 12/22/18 8:57 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:55:51PM +1300, Martin Tournoij wrote: >> [...] >> I wrote a brief article about "Open source DIY ethics", which I think >> describes the mentality of open source development for many (in the >> suckless community it's more

Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

2018-12-21 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:55:51PM +1300, Martin Tournoij wrote: > Hey there, > > I wrote a brief article about "Open source DIY ethics", which I think > describes the mentality of open source development for many (in the > suckless community it's more explicit, but I think it's hardly contained