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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull (www.theregister.com)
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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

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[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

I sneakily changed our pipeline to pull from the in-house docker registry, and for pipelines to require pulling from package repos only when locks changed. Our CI is faster than every other team, but nobody noticed.

So yeah, charge the companies! Please!

How come this is not an obvious improvement opportunity that materializes in other teams too, and visibly so, rather than "sneakily" hidden?

Isn't it better not only for performance but also for reliability?

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

It's very top down here. If the group of designated leaders (meaning CTO and his close friends) don't approve of changes to the Way of Working and base repository template, it shall not be applied.

I've pointed out problems before and wanted to improve things but was told to "stay in my lane" basically. That killed all motivation to go through the proper channels. If you aren't in the in-group, well, that's it, you have no say.

Unfortunately, they pay well.

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