I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad.
A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
The project I’m working on has had regular discussion about whether we should move from our email list and patch workflow to a more PR focused approach for a number of years now. Something that works for us greybeards is anathema to younger engineers who grew up on GitHub.
I suspect the current slopocolypse is going to delay that move for a few more years until this wave of disruption has settled down.
If they decide to move, don’t go to Github. Quality has gone downhill there.
They hide the issues from https://www.githubstatus.com/
But this is happening right now: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/psa-project-wide-issue-with-merging-pull-requests-in-the-github-ui/91974
Codeberg/forgejo is like github but better. Its crazy