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While I don’t care too much about ideas and projects that I believe to be dead ends or maybe even doomed to fail eventually, a recent interaction on Superhighway84 got me to write down a few thoughts on why I believe Project Gemini is a really bad idea.
Funding for OSS projects is typically dire. In 2019, developer André Staltz collected data from Open Collective and GitHub to assess project revenues. Over 50 per cent of projects couldn t sustain their maintainers above the poverty line, while 31 per cent generated enough for a salary considered unacceptable in the industry.
The sample size was small (58), but that made these results even more illuminating. It comprised relatively large projects, most with at least one full-time contributor. For each of these, there are thousands of other projects that are smaller, but still critical for at least one company somewhere.
Projects foundational to the health of the internet are often alarmingly undersupported. In her 2016 report on open-source sustainability for the Ford Foundation, Nadia Eghbal documented the plight of the OpenSSL project, on which thousands of companies and applications rely.
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AWS has introduced the OpenSearch project, the new name for its open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana.
OpenSearch is the new home for our previous distribution of Elasticsearch (Open Distro for Elasticsearch), according to a post yesterday, and the code is licensed under Apache 2.0. The Kibana fork is called OpenSearch Dashboards.
The projects are on GitHub, where they are described as in alpha state. The contributors said: We ve been removing non-Apache 2.0 compliant code and doing a full rename of the project.