I mean if I got an issue that sounded that entitled and this is something I do in my spare time, I’d probably ignore it.
My point is they could have worded it better and it might have gotten a response. If you ask kindly about the BLOBs and maybe for some help to push you in the right direction instead of saying “I don’t know”, then it is fair to call the maintainer rude for ignoring it completely.
I haven’t read to far into this but the issue is completely devoid of contributors and maintainers. I find the wording of the issue quite concerning:
Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I’m appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/cryptsetup https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/Unix/ventoy_unix https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/DMSETUP
There is no reason to have those not be build in the release process. Of course it’s convenient, they are prebuild, it’s fast and nobody has a problem with it.
Recent events however showed that these BLOBs can contain everything and nothing. The build instructions would not produce the exact same executable for everyone. It’s better to have GitHub build it on-push and use them out of the build cache.
I would do it myself, but unfortunately I’m not familiar enough with the Ventoy build process to actually do it. I understand that removing BLOBs isn’t a priority over new and shiny features. But due to recent events, this should be rethought.
Thank you for reading this and I hope for a productive conversation
This is free software, they don’t owe you anything and this kind of language sounds angry and entitled. You can’t just Gordon Ramsay on someone else’s codebase.
Binary Large OBject
Also GitHub has full-text search and doesn’t filter profanities if you’re looking for material
Developers who are not willing to learn something new and not adapt are the worst
I think you mean people in general. Life is short, try some stuff, take risks
Only takes one person to do it. Especially with Saas there’s only the web platform.
The headline completely misses the point of Free Software as well. It’s about free as in freedom, not beer.
It’s FOSS, people have the right to remove them
Only a spambot would ask someone ousting someone as a spambot for accusing someone of being a spambot who had claimed that they were accused of being a spambot!
Though only a spambot would respond to someone claiming to have been accused of being a spambot, accusing them of being a spambot
I need to start consistently defeating the AI first
Quite the opposite—I’ve only played Armada, not that I have any real strategy to speak of buy I like to set up lots of radar as well as claim the airspace early then once I’ve built the nuke the game is pretty much won. Haven’t tried that on a real player yet though
Thank you for your contribution
I asked this a while ago which is how I discovered Beyond All Reason which has been my FOSS game of choice as of late.
I’d also recommend Naev and Endless Sky (Both are based on the Escape Velocity Series, Naev is getting a 3D PBR renderer in the next release). Mindustry is good fun, actually purchased this one on steam to support the amazing developer. Extreme Tux Racer is a bit of fun and Super Tux Kart seems to get better with every update (did I mention it can run on the Nintendo Switch via homebrew!)
Edit: I forgot about 0ad and Minetest which I used to play a bit of a while back
The Linux desktop is a very broad concept. The experience gaming on Arch could be a lot harder than gaming on Bazzite, they didn’t specify which distro they were using so you’ve got no idea as to how far in over their head they are
I give a shit
This doesn’t sound like gatekeeping at all
How many games have an official Excel plugin? Once they finish setting up their spreadsheets the EvE Online players will be here in force
openSOOOSE
I didn’t say they’re wrong it’s the way they communicated which I found off-putting and Gordon Ramsay -esque