[postgis-devel] Enabling wagyu by default

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 07:14:07PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 5/29/19 7:12 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> > On 19-05-29 18:39:54, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> >> On 5/29/19 6:23 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> >>> On 19-05-29 17:46:39, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> >>>> On 5/29/19 5:44 PM, Raúl Marín Rodríguez wrote:
> >>>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> Please don't. Mapbox is terrible at maintaining their projects, I don't
> >>>> see wagyu having a bright future.
> >>>
> >>> MapBox accepts patches. I have submitted lots of PRs to OSRM and
> >>> Valhalla and never hit any die-hard hardshell.
> >>
> >> Be prepared to maintain a fork when they loose interest in the project
> >> and abandon it.
> > 
> > "When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it
> > off to
> > a competent successor." - Eric S. Raymond, Cathedral and the Bazaar
> > 
> > Or, I', missing something.
> 
> Look into the history of tilemill for example.

I feel Bas pain, been there...

Today's "opensource" offer often suffer from lack of community, and
GitHub has a role here (lack of mailing lists often reduces the sense
of a "community" and it takes a community to find a "competent
successor"). Often GitHub-only projects end up being community-less
orphans.

That said, I don't see any risk in having our own implementation of an
algorithm which we know works.

--strk;