RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116095927843936684
This is a very good summary of the current state of open source development and a way forward.
But, also, the same critique applies to the current "open science" situation in academia. The same issues persist. People don't want to play it slow - pay dues and build trust.
But no, academics want citations or as @Daojoan put it " their GitHub activity graph to glow green for recruiter eyeballs".
Open source has an open slop problem.
And I think the solution is one that would've been perfectly obvious to a thirteenth-century Florentine weaver...
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/