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(author here) I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but also these sorts of requests feel premature for a project like ours that doesn't yet have a sizeable user base.

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The user was called adl-collab, when it forked repos to add implementations it made them under a branch called "andrew".

The biggest contributor to the project in the last 3mo is andrewlaack... and we can also just take a guess that "adl" in adl-collab is AnDrewLaak.

Yeah, I'll make sure this doesn't continue. To be clear there were 11 total issues posted; this was a mistake, not some huge spamming campaign.

Possibly andrewlaack’s clanker run amok

At least this is more informative than "Thanks Andrew".

You are also characterizing another project that was open-sourced (sandstorm) and is under active development as "long abandoned". Open source is difficult and requires a fair amount of cheerleading to engage users and make them part of the community. As a result it's hard to see your project in a positive light.

They also called out Sandstorm for requiring changes to the applications for them to run on the platform.

Which is true. There's no issue with honest criticism, but when it's careless or disingenuous then it it's a put reflection on the speaker.

Right, I wouldn't have mentioned it if their own platform didn't apparently have the same issue.

I mean, to be honest it does look like sandstorm development has almost stopped for the past couple of years...or am I missing something? https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/graphs/code-freque...

No, sandstorm was deprecated years ago. I was building a platform that was similar to/inspired by sandstorm, and I closely followed it until its creator deprecated it. They now work for Cloudflare and released the 'WorkOS' project a couple weeks ago through them/for them.

I believe you mean Cloudflare OS: https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572

Current status explained here:

https://sandstorm.io/news/2024-01-14-move-to-sandstorm-org

Our current work is in the dev branch, we are preparing for a new release soon.

"Long abandoned" is a fair characterization of Sandstorm.

There is a loyal community of enthusiasts trying to keep it alive, but realistically not a lot of progress has been made. (Though, AI has helped them make more progress lately.)

But the original creator of Sandstorm (me) did indeed abandon it long ago (sorry).

More here: https://sandstorm.io/news/2024-01-14-move-to-sandstorm-org

There is no need to apologize for building a fantastic tool that was ahead of its time.

But "abandoned" in this contexts makes it sound like it's dead. Even if it's factually correct that the original (very busy) author stepped away and it is literally/factually true that you "abandoned it", it is also fairly misleading.

I disfavor maligning open source projects based on a misleading framing.

Looking at the issues, do I understand it correctly that you have some way to install directly from repositories if they contain a `cloudinabottle.toml` file?

If yes, regardless of who made the issues, that seems like terrible architecture/design there...

Please don't require app cooperation for getting apps into a bottle. I don't want to have to fight to get a file in, nor maintain my own fork.

I feel like with the capabilities of AI, I feel like they should be able to just figure this out..

> posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure

This line makes me think you are running a spam campaign and andrew just isn't part of it

I used to work for this company many years ago, and it's highly unlikely they're running a (centrally organized) spamming campaign of any type. Zack's a good guy and I'm sure he'll get it taken care of promptly.

If this is a spam campaign, it’s not a very effective one. I think you’d do well to apply Hanlon’s Razor here

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