Please Don't Ask If an Open Source Project Is Dead

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  • chatbot-ui

    AI chat for every model.

  • > The comment I screenshotted is passive-aggressive at best, and there's no really good way to ask "is this repo dead" without being passive-aggressive. My day-to-day job that actually pays me a salary wouldn't ever provide a bulleted list of the reasons I suck, let alone a project I develop in my spare time.

    There is nothing passive-aggressive about that comment. There is nothing problematic about it at all. Nobody's calling you slurs or making demands. I see one guy who might as well be a Mormon Boy Scout from Canada. "Is this repo dead" is not passive-aggressive, just ineloquent. Fuck my eyes until the jelly leaks out my ears if a courteous and professionally-written question constitutes "applying pressure and being rude" these days.

    I don't know what a "bulleted list of the reasons [you] suck" has to do with anything (I don't see where anybody sent you one) but you're coming across as someone who invites people to your garage sale and then brandishes a shotgun and starts screaming when they set foot on your property.

    > I’ve never seen any discussions or articles about whether it’s appropriate to ask if an open source repository is dead. Is there an implicit contract to actively maintain any open source software you publish? Are you obligated to provide free support if you hit a certain star amount on GitHub or ask for funding through GitHub Sponsorships/Patreon? After all, most permissive open source code licenses like the MIT License contain some variant of “the software is provided ‘as is’, without warranty of any kind.”

    Here's an example of why everyone should ask if an open source project is dead:

    https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui/issues

    A number of issues complain about it leaking OpenAI keys. Nobody's figured out how, but it'd be nice to know if anybody's working on it, if it's worth submitting a PR, if it should be forked, if it's worth bothering with at all. This code is a massive liability in its current state. Its creator is absent. It warrants questions being asked about its future. Yeah, it's as-is software, but it's not an affront to your mother's virtue when someone asks if your shit still works or if you have plans to fix it.

    > I’ve had an existential crisis about my work in open source AI on GitHub, particularly as there has been both increasingly toxic backlash against AI and because the AI industry has been evolving so rapidly that I flat-out don’t have enough bandwidth to keep up

    Herein lies the problem? You sound overwhelmed. I've been there myself. I don't know what your year's been like but you genuinely might want to get away from the screen and get some fresh air. This is a good time of year to do it, since things generally slow down at work.

  • simpleaichat

    Python package for easily interfacing with chat apps, with robust features and minimal code complexity.

  • I checked both the issues mentioned, people have been respectful and showing empathy to author's situation

    https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/issues/91

    https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/issues/92

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  • ExampleMod1.7.10

    An example mod for Minecraft 1.7.10 with Forge focussed on a stable setup.

  • Exactly. You can easily find compiler 1.7.10 mods everywhere, and even the source, but getting the source to build requires some work: https://github.com/GTNewHorizons/ExampleMod1.7.10

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