This is quite intriguing. But DHH has left so many details out (at least in that post) as pointed out by @breadsmasher@lemmy.world - it makes it difficult to relate to.

On the other hand, like DHH said, one's mileage may vary: it's, in many ways, a case-by-case analysis that companies should do.

I know many businesses shrink the OPs team and hire less experienced OPs people to save $$$. But just to forward those saved $$$ to cloud providers. I can only assume DDH's team is comprised of a bunch of experienced well-payed OPs people who can pull such feats off.

Nonetheless, looking forward to, hopefully, a follow up post that lays out some more details. Pray share if you come across it 🙏

When i read the title, my immediate thought was "Mojolicious project renamed? To a name w/ an emoji!?" 😂

We plan to open-source Mojo progressively over time

Yea, right! I can't believe that there are people who prefer to work on/with a closed source programming language in 2023 (as if it's the 80's.)

... can move faster than a community effort, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until it's more complete.

Apparently it was "complete" enough to ask the same "community" for feedback.

I genuinely wonder how they managed to convince enthusiasts to give them free feedback/testing (on github/discord) for something they didn't have access to the source code.

PS: I didn't downvote. I simply got upset to see this happening in 2023.

If the controversies, allegations, rumors and gossips are about firefox though it definitely is important.
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the huge chunks of money firefox gets from their biggest competitor

I think we're confusing things here 🙂

Examples of topics relevant to Firefox

• [Hypothetical] Firefox collects user data w/o consent.
• [Hypothetical] Researchers found government backdoors X, Y and Z in Firefox code base.
• [Hypothetical] Firefox to disable Javascript by default.

Examples of topics NOT relevant to Firefox

• Mozilla's contract w/ Google
• Mozilla's political campaign
• Mozilla's CEO allegedly being a selfish a-hole

Finally let's not forget that Firefox is an open source project, the result of the collaboration of hundreds, if not thousands, of people over the past 2 decades. Despite Mozilla's important role, there's way more to Firefox and its potential future than the usual corporate gossip/controversies.

My humble 2 cents 🙂

I'd rather keep this community about Firefox the product and what it (doesn't) brings to the table. That's what I am, personally, interested in.

It'd be great if we could keep all the other things such as controversies, allegations, rumours, gossips, ... contained in a "mozilla" community and tried our best to maintain the separation.

Interestingly "Bazzi" means "game" in Farsi 🤷‍♂️

Tell me something I don't know already 😂 The challenge is helping non-techies understand why they should wean themselves off of FB 🤷‍♂️

The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says no to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing—that the GPL “excludes” some proprietary software developers who “need to be brought into the free software community.”

But we are not excluding them from our community; they are choosing not to enter. Their decision to make software proprietary is a decision to stay out of our community. Being in our community means joining in cooperation with us; we cannot “bring them into our community” if they don't want to join.

"Do you not know my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" 🤷‍♂️

I wonder what would that mean for openSUSE, given that, apparently, an equity firm is making decisions on behalf of the SUSE board 😞

This is the 2nd of such moves this year to my knowledge; first there was #Lightbend and #Akka and now this. What a year for #FOSS 😕

I know for a fact that so many organisations use #hashicorp products for commercial purposes w/o ever contributing back. And I understand how this may feel for hashicorp in these harsh economic times. Though this still is, IMHO, a cheap move: they used an OSS license for a very long time which resulted in a massive user base and a "soft" vendor lock-in, and now they decided to milk that user base.

Looking forwards to solid community-driven forks of their products 💪

I'm a software engineer by profession and passion and have been writing programs for well over 20 years now. I believe your experience is totally natural - at least I share the same feelings:

1. Large code bases take time getting to know and understand: most definitely true. It takes time and effort and is an investment you need to make before being able to feel confident. You don't need to fully comprehend every aspect of the project before you can contribute but you sure need to have a decent enough idea of how to build, test, run and deploy a particular feature. See point (2).

2. Don't let the size of the project intimidate you. Start small and expand your knowledge base as you go. Usually one good starting point is simply building the project, running tests and deploying it (if applicable.) Then try to take on simple tasks (eg from the project's issue tracker) and deliver on those (even things like fixing the installation docs, typos, ...) That'll have the additional impact of making you feel good about the work that you're doing and what you're learning. I'm sure at this stage you will "know" when you're confident enough to work on tasks which are a bit bigger.

3. During (1) and (2), please please do NOT be tempted to just blindly copy-paste stuff at the first sign of trouble. Instead invest some time and try to understand things, what is failing and why it is so. Once you do, it's totally fine to copy-paste.

After all, there's no clear cut formula. Each project is a living and breathing creature and "not one of them is like another." The only general guideline is patience, curiosity and incremental work.