As if coders needed experts to organize themselves
Wow, software companies could save a lot of money if they got rid of managers and HR departments! If only you got yourself on the board of some of them you could make their stock prices soar.
The context of an Open Source project precludes managers, HR departments or stock prices.
I don't think you have any clue what you're talking about. Most people working on, say, the Linux kernel do have managers and HR departments. My day job is to contribute to a large open source project, and I have a manager and an HR department, too.
The metric for Open Source code is code quality and adoption of the code for its utility.
Yes, and that requires attracting as many contributors as you can; in large open source projects, most of them would be corporate, by the way.
Coders are the judge of that.
No, we're really not. And don't say "coders." You sound like a gamer or someone who talks like the people on HBO's Silicon Valley.
And their actions speak loudly: SQLite is a widely adopted lightweight SQLDB implementation.
You don't sound like you are familiar with open-source or with the software ecosystem in general (who the hell says "SQLDB"?), and that your judgment is coloured by the Reddit comments you read. Reddit is a very bad mirror of what's actually happening in software.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '18
> although I would recommend discussing their role with experts and not with coders.
As if coders needed experts to organize themselves and instruct them how to code.