Development quote of the week [LWN.net]

A small team had gotten a grant to finally finish deploying the next-generation rewrite of PyPI, and decommission the legacy site. We'd been very public about the timeline, testing instructions, etc. A short time before the switchover date, a company realized that their code could not follow the HTTP 303 redirect our service was serving. They asked us to delay the migration and keep the old backend running. For a few months.

— Sumana Harihareswara (thanks to Paul Wise)

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Companies

Posted Mar 13, 2025 4:21 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

From a thread about the ridiculous demands OSS maintainers get from companies:

https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly/114112956589304873

Companies

Posted Mar 13, 2025 13:34 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

>From a thread about the ridiculous demands OSS maintainers get from companies:
> https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly/114112956589304873

Which leads to the best thing I've seen in a long time:

"So all your Software Supply Chain ideas? You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. So I would advise you to put these rules in the same dumpster."

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier