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Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre
Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist community that actually produces it. The conversation reveals this isn’t a new problem, but a long-standing reality whose consequences for security, stability, and the future of software we are only now beginning to truly confront.
Cause I see that all the time where if you show up to a project and you might send them a pull request and then it can turn into you get ignored or they get annoyed because it doesn’t match the style or whatever the message there’s a million things. Josh Bressers (35:18) That’s a good point actually, I hadn’t really thought about that angle, but yeah, Rust solves a bunch of those problems and it just makes them disappear. learn, look at what we do, maybe do it a bit, like go sit behind someone’s shoulder while they do it, talk with them, you can offer them a coffee, they would probably be happy to shoot the shit on this right, or go in, I mean it’s not IRC anymore but Zulip, Discord, Slack, like find the place where they are and observe what they say and how they say it.
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