[kragen]

it hasn't been open-source since 02019 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB#History so if there are popular forks they'd have to be five years old

[cvwright]

BSL code automatically converts to open source at a specified date. So probably several releases since then are now as open source as anything else in the world. And if not, then they will be soon - BSL allows a maximum 5 year delay.

[kragen]

that may be (i haven't read the license) but i'm not persuaded it's relevant

if nobody forked it five years ago, they probably aren't going to fork it now

if somebody did fork it five years ago, they probably aren't going to try to merge in new source code drops as they convert to open source

[cvwright]

Then why do you care? If nobody is going to fork it anyway, what’s the benefit of being open source from the beginning?

[kragen]

i don't care that much because i don't use it, and evidently not much of anybody else does either, or there would have been a popular fork. i'm just saying that this is probably not a good time to expect one to pop up

[collinmanderson]

> 02019

Why not 002019? 6 digits. That would be valid a lot longer.

[kragen]

i wholeheartedly support your choice to henceforth format your years with six digits

[collinmanderson]

I'm waiting for python support first. Not sure what the eta is or why it's taking so long. Every day we get closer to the eventual deadline.

> Extended date representations are not currently supported (±YYYYYY-MM-DD).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat...

> MAXYEAR is 9999.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.MAX...

I'm also waiting for longnow.org to start using long dates behind the scenes, like image urls, html metadata, http headers, etc. They need to eat their own dog food as far as software goes.

    <link rel="icon" href="https://static.longnow.org/2022/06/favicon.png" type="image/png">
    <meta property="og:image" content="https://static.longnow.org/2021/10/header-talks.jpg">
    <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2024-06-11T17:21:23.000Z">