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N-gated Hacker News Mar 8

Ah, yet another riveting tome on the thrilling world of software maintenance via continuous integration 🤓. Because clearly, we need AI agents to fix our code while we sip artisanal lattes and attend endless meetings on Zoom ☕💻. Remember, the real challenge is not the code, but staying awake through this "groundbreaking" reading. 💤📚
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823 #softwaremaintenance #continuousintegration #AIagents #techhumor #productivity #HackerNews #ngated

SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous Integration

Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing, as evidenced by benchmarks like SWE-bench. However, in the real world, the development of mature software is typically predicated on complex requirement changes and long-term feature iterations -- a process that static, one-shot repair paradigms fail to capture. To bridge this gap, we propose \textbf{SWE-CI}, the first repository-level benchmark built upon the Continuous Integration loop, aiming to shift the evaluation paradigm for code generation from static, short-term \textit{functional correctness} toward dynamic, long-term \textit{maintainability}. The benchmark comprises 100 tasks, each corresponding on average to an evolution history spanning 233 days and 71 consecutive commits in a real-world code repository. SWE-CI requires agents to systematically resolve these tasks through dozens of rounds of analysis and coding iterations. SWE-CI provides valuable insights into how well agents can sustain code quality throughout long-term evolution.

arXiv.org

Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)Jan 8

I used to think of myself as an "innovator" 20 years ago. Today I'm probably better described as "ancient maintainer" as I'm mostly working on projects I've started 10-15 years ago. I used to believe a good maintainer churns out new and exciting features all the time, but I now I think that a good maintainer:

- keeps the lights on
- doesn't frustrate the users of their projects (less breaking changes and controversial/divisive features)
- tries to build a welcoming and enduring community around their projects
- values simplicity and the power of "saying no"/"less is more"

This article definitely resonated strongly with me https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/

#FOSS #OSS #SoftwareMaintenance

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer

Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us

Westenberg.

Flatbush Gardener 🌈Nov 13

We called it "support", but okay.
https://mastodon.social/@planetaryecologist/115543979074318056
[email protected] - Software evolution (Evolution 🧬)

Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. ... organizations invest large amounts of money in their software and are completely dependent on this software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_evolution

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Software evolution - Wikipedia

Planetary Ecologist Nov 13

Software evolution (Evolution 🧬)

Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. Software evolution is important because organizations invest large amounts of money in their software and are completely dependent on this software. Software evolution helps software adapt to changing bus...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_evolution

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Software evolution - Wikipedia

Prishusoft Oct 17

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Amedee Sep 3, 2025

🧹 Tidying Up After Myself: Automatically Deleting Old GitHub Issues

At some point, I had to admit it: I’ve turned GitHub Issues into a glorified chart gallery. Let me explain. Over on my amedee/ansible-servers repository, I have a workflow called workflow-metrics.yml, which runs after every pipeline. It uses yykamei/github-workflows-metrics to generate beautiful charts that show how long my CI pipeline takes to run. Those charts are then posted into a GitHub Issue—one per run. It’s neat. It's visual. It's entirely unnecessary to keep them […]

https://amedee.be/%f0%9f%a7%b9-tidying-up-after-myself-automatically-deleting-old-github-issues/

N-gated Hacker News Aug 30, 2025

🎸🤖 Taylor Otwell gives us a masterclass in stating the obvious: maintaining software is important! After 14 years of #Laravel, he's finally cracked the code on why not to mix spaghetti with your codebase. 🍝💻
https://maintainable.fm/episodes/taylor-otwell-what-14-years-of-laravel-taught-me-about-maintainability #TaylorOtwell #SoftwareMaintenance #CodeQuality #SpaghettiCode #HackerNews #ngated

Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

Taylor Otwell looks back on 14 years of building and maintaining Laravel. From four stars on GitHub to a full-fledged ecosystem, he shares what it takes to design software that lasts—and why simple often wins.

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N-gated Hacker News Aug 29, 2025

🔒🚨 Breaking news! In a shocking twist, maintaining software turns out to be important! Who knew? 🐛 #FreeBSD users, dust off your resumes, because it looks like libxslt's job opening for a maintainer just got urgent. 😅🔥
https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/b0a3466f-5efc-11f0-ae84-99047d0a6bcc.html #BreakingNews #SoftwareMaintenance #libxslt #JobOpening #HackerNews #ngated

VuXML: libxslt -- unmaintained, with multiple unfixed vulnerabilities

Fedizen ⁂ Fediverse News Jul 23, 2025

🇪🇺 #GitHub is calling for a new #EU #techfund (€350M) to support #critical #opensource #softwaremaintenance, highlighting its economic importance and the need for #sustainablefunding.

😏 While acknowledging the need for #publicfunding, there is concern about big #techcompanies offloading their #responsibilities and the potential for the fund to become a subsidy for them.

👉 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/github-eu-open-source-funding?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, But Who Should Really Pay?

GitHub is urging the EU to create a €350m fund for open source maintenance. But as Big Tech profits, should taxpayers be the ones to pay the tab?

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