… my fame, while certainly categorized under “cult of personality” is not necessarily accidental. It’s called marketing.
I don’t know, man, if you approach open source projects as a marketing strategy you should know what you are getting into. Tying your personal brand to a project to get higher visibility implies that you should be able to deal with the criticism and/or know when to step aside. You cannot expect to take personally all the success of the project, just as you cannot take personallu all the criticism. Specially in such a polarizing topic as package managers (where everyone has strong opinions about what they like or not).
Specially in such a polarizing topic as package managers (where everyone has strong opinions about what they like or not).
I stopped reading the article the moment I saw it was about pushing or changing a package manager in a popular language. A pointless battle usually follows.
I wasn’t sure if he was being sarcastic or not with that statement. I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it does not allay my vague uneasiness about OSS slowly sliding away from excellence and more towards collectivist BS metrics and fashion.
TIL there’s python package manager which creates virtualenvs automatically. Never heard about it before. But PyPA instead of PyPI? Or PyPA is a layer on top of PyPI? Python packaging systems change so fast.
I don’t know, man, if you approach open source projects as a marketing strategy you should know what you are getting into. Tying your personal brand to a project to get higher visibility implies that you should be able to deal with the criticism and/or know when to step aside. You cannot expect to take personally all the success of the project, just as you cannot take personallu all the criticism. Specially in such a polarizing topic as package managers (where everyone has strong opinions about what they like or not).
I stopped reading the article the moment I saw it was about pushing or changing a package manager in a popular language. A pointless battle usually follows.
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I wasn’t sure if he was being sarcastic or not with that statement. I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it does not allay my vague uneasiness about OSS slowly sliding away from excellence and more towards collectivist BS metrics and fashion.
TIL there’s python package manager which creates virtualenvs automatically. Never heard about it before. But PyPA instead of PyPI? Or PyPA is a layer on top of PyPI? Python packaging systems change so fast.
PyPA is the Python Packaging Authority, the people who maintain PyPI, tools like
pipandsetuptools, and make sure they all work nicely together.