These are the sort of changes that require full timers https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/213796fb4936dce1da2f0c097a054e1af5c25c2c …. Requires enough time that context switching hurts.
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Certainly never would have done that in nights and weekends. Even one day a week would have taken ages. Have to remember where I was each wk
One of the biggest problem with Rails as a code base is that there are too many "band-aid" fixes, too few people thinking about big picture
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Do you think this is Rails-specific, or a general problem with large OSS projects? I definitely feel this a lot with Homebrew.
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It is a general problem with large OSS projects. (Or of any size to a certain extent)
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I’m far from an apologist, as you know, but that’s the nature of a codebase that’s being actively relied on in production by tons of people.
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I think it's more of a symptom of not enough people being given time to work on it
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So goes any long lived project, I fear.
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I think his point is that non-OSS (or OSS w/ more paid full-timers) can do more of this. And I agree.
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