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canoodle@nerdpol.ch

Rant: Open Source and the concept of: Release early, release often or publish early & publish often -> continuous development/continuous integration (CD/CI) -> tight loops ok but still - linking to nirvana without redirection & badly written software that everyone uses - another case of - nothing works "ok" - klarer fall von "nichts funktioniert ok"

https://administrator.de/forum/wol-geht-nicht-mit-broadcast-adresse-101944.html

-> it’s catastrophic, when webpages change their url setup…

https://www.heise.de/netze/Wake-on-WAN–/artikel/89304/0

because it will result in

“nothing works” “ok”

this does not have nothing to do with luck, but with:

  1. bad url management:
    • wordpress does an pretty good job there, as whenever the user changes the url (more keywords?) it will also redirect from the older past urls to the new url
      • that is how it is SUPPOSED to be for EVERY website of the (not so) “ethernal” part of the internet called www
  2. elastic search seems to be a very very badly written software that does not do any sort of software quality checks?
    • or maybe it’s wrongful integration? (but maybe it just sucks)
    • why is every developer-user using it?
  • PS: as mankind still ponders and evolves (by making mistakes) how to best deal with computers
    • yes someone said “publish early” & “publish often” (doing this with the blog… also… often too often and too early X-D)
      • or: “Release early, release often” (wiki)
        • “tight feedback loop between developers and testers or users” (wiki) - yeah sure as a developer that might be a good thing, as a user… really doubt it… - there are highly intelligent respected developers that pioneered this concept… it might work for small teams… (of one)
        • “This philosophy was popularized by Eric S. Raymond in his 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar, where Raymond stated “Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers”.[4]”“This philosophy was originally applied to the development of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, but has also been applied to closed source, commercial software development.””The alternative to the release early, release often philosophy is aiming to provide only polished, bug-free releases.[5] Advocates of RERO question that this would in fact result in higher-quality releases.[4]
      • has this lead to every developer going in the: continuous development/continuous integration direction? (definately sounds like it)
        • it really should be called CD/CI not CI/CD because first comes the development, then the integration (but well hewego: CI/CD@RedHat)
        • still pondering if it’s really a good idea - well if software quality sticks to UNIX principles of K.I.S.S (most do not and have NO IDEA what non-K.I.S.S means for their software-project or company: - it is the difference between: - lost in chaos of complexity = dysfunctionality - vs a lean stream of running smooth software-company - src: https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch01s07.html - plus test-driven development: 100.000 use case checks tested afterwards automatic & semi-automatic & manual - than that probably works (but then that is what needs to be done anyway to ensure good software quality) - plus: maybe a feedback channel that does not de-motivate - always say something positive first - then the critique
        • signal.org is a very cool mobile & desktop messenger (that usually works pretty well) but: - what is already annoying: if updates per program are 100MBytes and more… (always downloads the full thing (signal.org desktop client) no differential updates?)
  • word of advice: never blindly follow “the trends”
    • always think for yourself, “does it make sense”?
      • test it if it works for you, if not, drop it, what’s the point?

imho gotta to do both…

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Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/02/03/rant-open-source-and-the-concept-of-release-early-release-often-or-publish-early-publish-often-continuous-development-continuous-integration-cd-ci-tight-loops-ok-but-still-linking-to-n/

gring@diasp.org

Every year on #April #22, #Earth #Day marks the #anniversary of the #birth of the modern #environmental #movement in 1970. We are honoring Earth Day with the #futurist #Buckminster #Fuller (1895-1983), an American #architect, #systems #theorist, #author, #designer, #inventor and #philosopher. Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on #renewable #sources of #energy, such as #solar- and #wind-derived #electricity.

Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known #geodesic #dome; #carbon #molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic #spheres.

I just copied this from *https://karsh.org/buckminster-fuller-2/ :)