things in alpine that have driven some doubt for me for some time:
- the overall governance situation (not fixed, but maybe marginally improving)
- apkv3 file format (i think it is good to use tarstreams, they are not dangerous)
- APKBUILDs just feel obsolete compared to melange
the fact that developers spend 90% of their time toiling with manually bumping packages, and this is why we "need" AI contributions
this stinks. it's bad engineering.
but most importantly, i want to build a community where *nobody* is infallible
one thing i have noticed, again and again and again, is that whenever anyone criticizes ncopa, people will blindly defend him
this is not good
and to be clear, i have not made a cogent argument for or against LLM contributions in the long tail. i think that we need to move slowly and focus on the fundamentals.
when the fundamentals are right, then the LLM argument looks a lot different -- time pressure which encourages LLM usage is reduced, leading to a more reasonable outcome
Ariadne Conill 🐰
Astrid