Goodbye, Green Recorder

https://github.com/foss-project/green-recorder/commit/5fc594b44f76b7a1469a893d8502ca3f1fb89312

by reddotX • 7 years ago

37 23 7 years ago

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chris_wot2• 7 years ago

Does anyone know the true backstory to this one?

nkozyra• 7 years ago

Why, do you doubt the "it took up too much of my time and energy" story?

btxxa2• 7 years ago

Why would someone post this commit of a practically unknown project here if there was no juicy backstory?

chris_wot2• 7 years ago

He could have just moved the maintainership to someone else. I was wondering if there was something that triggered the decision is all. I wasn't trying to be snarky or mean, I just wanted to know what had cause the burnout.

Sorry this got taken the wrong way.

strenholme• 7 years ago

It’s simple open source economics: Since no one is being paid to maintain the software, there is little incentive to continue developing it. However, since it is open source, anyone who feels inclined to can fork the code and create a maintained branch.

yjftsjthsd-h• 7 years ago

Just taken at face value, it looks like they didn't want to put in the significant effort of moving to newer display stacks. Wayland has a very different story for screen recorders, in ways which are likely to require significantly more ongoing effort.

Spivak2• 7 years ago

Which I'm not sure I understand fully since I was under the impression that Green Recorder was pretty much created for the singular purpose of supporting GNOME+KDE/Wayland.

I'm surprised that GNOME and KDE dropped the ball on this since all they had to do was provide a stable dbus API and any app would be able to consume it with very little fanfare.

Ellen_Monp• 7 years ago

Skeptcism can be good, but not in excess. If you decided to respond by saying "In your opinion(s), what led them to close shop?", folks would have responded more kindly.

SmellyGeekBoy• 7 years ago

There's a link to the true backstory here: https://github.com/foss-project/green-recorder/commit/5fc594...

alexlarsson• 7 years ago

My guess is that its due to comments like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695387

btxxa2• 7 years ago

Well if it was Python 2 only then he wasn't maintaining it much to begin with.

mijoharas• 7 years ago

The comment has been deleted. What did it say?

StavrosK2• 7 years ago

I'd encourage anyone thinking of archiving/retiring their project to add it to the Code Shelter: https://www.codeshelter.co/

It's a community that aims to help take care of OSS projects when the maintainer no longer can.

rambojazz• 7 years ago

How is that feasible? Adopting a more or less complex codebase of random projects that you probably have little interest in, have they got any success story that goes beyond the good intentions?

StavrosK2• 7 years ago

I've personally picked up a few abandoned projects, and a few more people have picked up others. It's a good introduction to OSS development, it takes five seconds to do and it beats just archiving the repo even if nobody takes it up.

postit• 7 years ago

Sad to see, but OBS is a very capable and easy to use application if you need.

thunderbong• 7 years ago

Besides the fact that OBS is not open source, why is this comment being down voted?

It's also free, isn't it? And therefore a very viable alternative to the vat majority of users

icebraining2• 7 years ago

It's not open source? The repository says GPLv2...

buildzr• 7 years ago

Free and Open Source GPLv2 (the O is for Open even):

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

Goodbye, Green Recorder

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