Sadly, this is how it works in many large social systems, left unchecked. The “reasonable consumers” drain the kind contributors until they cannot do this anymore. The curse of kindness strikes in software and other industries alike.

This is all due to the ongoing attempt to convert FOSS into an obligation. The original idea behind FOSS was to code to scratch your itch and then leave it out there for anyone to find, modify and use. Instead we now treat FOSS code like commercial projects with performance goals and expectations.

Why? My guess is that this new culture is promoted to extract free labor from hobby developers. Take for example, Github. It has a bot to close stale issues after a given interval of inactivity. But what if the issue was valid and unresolved? What's the problem in leaving it open for someone interested to take it up? But what GH wants to promote is a culture where open issues are considered as bad performance on the maintainer's side. It indirectly prompts the maintainers to take open issues too seriously.

> Why?

Well, also a lot of people get into FOSS for altruistic reasons. They want to pay it forward and make the world a better place.

For these people, applying good operations principles allows them to more efficiently do good -- just like it allows a commercial company to deliver more end-user value for lower cost.

Running an efficient operation in FOSS isn't necessarily bad. Sometimes it takes an obligation viewpoint to get there. It can be unhealthy, but it can also give us crazy levels of neat software, as we see proof of daily.

One of our reporting systems closed month end reporting yesterday. Made everyone mad until they realized things can still be changed today.

If you had as many monkeys as parameters in LLM they might run your business ;-)

I dread the morning after a night of getting something to work…somehow.

Ok, so test case generation has been around a while and now that it is working, where is the GitHub Action?

Further, please ensure strict privacy of anyone entering the house but at the same time allow for good communication among everyone.

Also, make sure only authorized people can enter or see what’s happening inside and keep everyone very safe from fires, physical harm or other people. Unfortunately, the safety must be accomplished without additional cost or restrictions in use.

The house is also going to be located in a unincorporated neighborhood where crime is rampant and law enforcement can do nothing to help. The house must nevertheless be secure from vandalism, arson, theft, installation of listening devices, verbal abuse or assault of visitors, or access by terrorists or people on global sanctions lists. I don’t plan on buying any insurance, the police won’t investigate any wrongdoing, and I don’t plan on paying security guards. But the house has to be open to the public. The people who will attempt to abuse or assault the house range from gangs of bored teenagers, through organized crime gangs, up to the intelligence agencies and militaries of major hostile nations. Good luck.