A few of you have asked so I'm very excited to share that the Deployment Dojo is coming back for Season 2. In fact, the show was so successful, it was picked up by FireGiant and is moving to the FireGiant channel. Let's talk about it.
Today I'm launching an idea three years in the making. The Open Source Maintenance Fee tackles the sustainablity problem by charging a small fee for use of an Open Source Project. What? Why? How? All answered in more detail below.
I didn't know it but the last couple of years have been buliding up to this point. Today is my birthday, so it is time to review last year and because if the next few days go well, the rest of this year will not be the same.
We are living in the Second Generation of Open Source. Think about it. Open Source was coined in 1998. Generations are 20-30 years long. I don't know exactly when it started but we are definitely in Open Source's Second Generation... and I think that explains a lot.
My brain is on fire. I'm juggling two major projects and a runaway thought process is plowing through the middle of it all. I almost need to take a vacation to capture everything about this new idea. But there is no time. Nevermind my Open Source project.
I disabled the WiX Toolset GitHub Discussions to stop a spam attack. I've reported the issue to GitHub. After they delete the ~750300 spam messages, I'll re-enable Discussions. Update 2024/05/27: Spam removed and GitHub Discussions have been restored.
I posted the bulk of my reflections on the WiX Toolset's 20th Anniversary on the FireGiant blog. I just have a couple tidbits to include here.
