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The qualms I have with this dialogue are the same as before, because CloudFlare has little to no idea how they are going to handle this. JGC tweeted me about how 'Oh, we get so much benefit from LuaJIT being FOSS" but here we have CloudFlare walling LuaJIT into it's own entity on GitHub where I predict commit bits will be few and far between. More than that, I don't think there has been enough narrative between Mike and the 'new LuaJIT crew' (CF) to determine how the project should be structured. In this thread, agentzh had a fantastic idea to vet somebody through Mike, someone the community knows can be trusted and also is somewhat familiar with the LuaJIT internals, and that person could serve as a canary between the project and CF. I write a fair bit of Lua for game scripting, and I've even made a few bucks here and there helping folks with their custom plugin ideas etc, but I've never touched C before. Well, when the previous announcement was made, I immediately Amazon'd some C books, which I plan to devour in my free time. At which point I'll be learning Rust, and reimplementing LuaJIT in Rust, and hopefully convince Mozilla to host the git, such that it will be protected from FOSS corruption. My worst fear is CF taking this project into the shadows, developing it closed-source (which they absolutely have a right to do) and not sharing their insights with the community. I think everybody with any kind of invested interest in LuaJIT needs to be gearing up right now, such that we can do our parts to keep this project alive. |
And we do. We paid Mike Pall to work on open source LuaJIT, we've contributed to NGINX, hired people to exclusively work on open source projects. Here's the harsh economic reality: it is simply better business for us to spend a relatively small amount of money on open source support to get what we need from fantastic projects like LuaJIT than to try to develop this stuff ourselves.
My worst fear is CF taking this project into the shadows, developing it closed-source (which they absolutely have a right to do) and not sharing their insights with the community.
How do we "have the right to do" that? Whatever makes you think us trying to closed source this would have any benefit to us? How is the Github account (of which Mike Pall is an owner) us walling it off?
More than that, I don't think there has been enough narrative between Mike and the 'new LuaJIT crew' (CF) to determine how the project should be structured.
I predict that if I hadn't sent an email to the list soliciting ideas and input and had announced a new structure you would have complained that everything had been done in the shadows.