GitHub stars won’t pay your rent

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Open Source is Not About You

Open Source is Not About You · GitHub

Why Funding Open Source is Hard

tl;dr: Either developers need to change, or GitHub needs to change

Before GitHub

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

It's time to pay the maintainers

Or, what Voltron can teach us about improving open source development.

I Don’t Want to Know What “Open Source” Means

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all on GitHub.

GitHub’s one-dimensional view of open source contributions – Wes McKinney

TL;DR One of the most harmful parts of the GitHub platform is the code contribution calendar. This “hacker score card” overemphasizes the value of commits over the other kinds of important contributions to open source projects, like doing code reviews and discussing bugs and new features on the issue tracker.

GitHub Star History

View and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects.

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

It’s time to rethink Open Source

Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.

Open Source is a privilege. Not a right. | devroom.io

Edit: this is not a Gitlab specific issue. I’ve seen it before and I’m seeing it again at the Gitlab project. The past few months I’ve been contributing to the Gitlab project. This has been a great experience, mostly because Gitlab has become a very popular project with over 2.3k watchers right now.

Ditching GitHub

This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, withside notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’sjust that I never se...

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

The Asymmetry of Open Source - Matt Holt

A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers - The Official Microsoft Blog

Today, we announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. I want to share what this acquisition will mean for our industry and for developers. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world, with every part of our daily life...