| ▲ | nwellnhof 2 hours ago |
| Do I get this right that you can only nominate projects on Github? It should be known by now that a centralized platform like Github is the complete antithesis to open source. |
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| ▲ | whit537 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| We discussed this prior to launch, and obviously decided to launch as you see it. :) Our reasoning was that a) standardizing on GitHub URLs makes it easier to do automated analysis as part of the funding model, and b) any project important enough to matter will have at least a GitHub mirror. If you have counter-examples to (b), please comment them on GitHub (see what I did there?) or here and I will copy/paste for you. :) https://github.com/osendowment/endowment.dev/issues/34 |
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| ▲ | mhitza 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | https://gotosocial.org/ Out of ethical disagreement they switched completely to codeberg. And they are certainly not the only ones, given signaling on the fediverse by other EU citizens. | |
| ▲ | nwellnhof an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > any project important enough to matter will have at least a GitHub mirror That might be true, but many of the mirrors are unofficial. | | |
| ▲ | whit537 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Noted in the abstract, thanks. Concrete examples more useful ofc. |
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| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They haven't pulled the plug on github yet, but my understanding is that Gentoo intends to drop it long term. In general, I would expect any of the projects that leave GH because they want to avoid being used to train AI would avoid leaving even a mirror behind (since that would defeat the point). (This is not intended as a value judgement, just saying that there exist projects that are doing this) | | |
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| ▲ | briffle 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So what is your proposed solution? |
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| ▲ | armchairhacker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Nominate any public git repo (or at least Codeberg, SourceHut, etc.) | |
| ▲ | hedora 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not the person you replied to, but I imagine less gameable signals than stars would make sense. Download count, default installs in multiple distros, industrial use cases in the cloud all come to mind. Maybe giving money to the endowment gives you a vote? (Kills two birds with one stone.) | | |
| ▲ | whit537 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The details of how we're thinking about this are in: https://github.com/osendowment/model Happy to have you join us there to iterate on the model. We do prioritize input from paid-up members ofc. ;^) | | |
| ▲ | verdverm 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > We do prioritize input from paid-up members ofc. Pay-to-play, this reinforces the SV mindset underpinning all of this. Strongly recommend you revise this if you are trying to present yourself as egalitarian. Feedback and suggestions for improvement ought to be considered on the merits, not who it came from, especially if money is the differentiator. (setting aside the natural reputation based weighting) |
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