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Ask HN: OSS discussions you'd call canonical/prototypical for the project?

8 pointsby data_dersover 1 year ago
I&#x27;m chewing on some ideas on maintainership culture for OSS projects and how it relates to a projects health and long-term viability.<p>My thought is that one can extrapolate a lot about a project from particular discussions. However, my exposure to OSS is quite limited to the projects close to me.<p>Can anyone share canonical public discussions that demonstrate project values and culture? Perhaps that would belong in Erdos&#x27;s &quot;book&quot; for that project or those that you find yourself referring back to.

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caniszczykover 1 year ago
A mature open source project may be governed under an open source foundation which usually gives it a charter <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cncf&#x2F;foundation&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;charter.md#3-values">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cncf&#x2F;foundation&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;charter.md#3-va...</a><p>... and&#x2F;or set of values: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.io&#x2F;community&#x2F;values&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.io&#x2F;community&#x2F;values&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s also a lot of open source guides here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;todogroup.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;guides&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;todogroup.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;guides&#x2F;</a> that may help you if you&#x27;re looking at building mature open source projects.
eimrineover 1 year ago
Torvalds vs Tanenbaum