Microsoft's .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions role

• ASP.NET Core

  1,633 34,357 9.9 C#

  ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

  

Yes, that's it. It was(is?) a .Net Foundation project that was included in ASP.NET Core starter templates. The maintainers decided to go non-FOSS for the future.

Interestingly though, there seemed to be no talk or discussion of finding new maintainers for the .Net Foundation project. Microsoft decided to update their templates for the upcoming .Net 6 to use the new, non FOSS identity server project(despite their being no real need for any identity server in these setups, and despite it no longer being FOSS).

Even more strange(coming from other FOSS platform communities) was how much shilling for Duende IdentityServer, and by Duende, was occurring in this thread discussing the development(buckle up): https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/32494 . Was really strange for a FOSS community to not be discussing the road forward for FOSS, but to be making arguments like "the license isn't that expensive" and etc. All this time the project is still listed as a .Net Foundation project: https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/identityserver .

I was somewhat surprised when looking into the .Net Foundation rules that they don't require turning over the project in any way to the community or foundation. I'm wondering now if MS was just going along with the easy path to avoid even more drama while the dust settles and they shore up foundation rules to prevent this from happening in the future.

• IdentityServer4

  22 8,946 4.2 C#

  Discontinued OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 Framework for ASP.NET Core

  

I wonder how much it was ever actually attempted to get more community involvement? At least as of few months back IdentityServer4 was not planning on updating the project for .Net 6. This led to Microsoft updating the ASP.NET templates to point use the new, not-FOSS IdentityServer. Seems like a situation like this, or bug fixes, or etc could have prompted community contribution from companies relying on the project.

Frankly, the decision to not updated the FOSS project for .Net 6 or accept PRs.. Adds some flavor to the situation: https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4/issues/535... .

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• designs

  20 869 7.0 C#

  This repo is used for reviewing new .NET designs.

  

Which kind of AOT flavour?

NGEN, .NET Native, the pseudo extract zip, the pseudo extract zip with mmap execution,.....

https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/fo...

Even in .NET 6 it is going to be "almost there wait for .NET 7 for all use cases".

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