Maintainer Hall of Shame

Right, but then the very next thing down in his list of gists is the ubiquitous "curl something and install as root":

https://gist.github.com/steakknife/8032911

It's easy to start tearing things down with a "wall of shame" ("Security-oblivious, amateur-hour."), but a bit harder to be constructive and help fix it.

He made list of some of the biggest very useful projects available for free and called that hall of shame.

I especially like "Heaviliy-depened upon but abandoned or barely maintained" point. Should we really shame mainteners for not continuing free support of their open source projects? "Heavily-depended upon" kind of suggests "useful for many people".

I do not really care whether they do not have time anymore, lost interest or died. It is still better for me if people abandon projects, then if they never even start them for fear they will not be able to maintain them forever.

I don't like to phrase "Hall of Shame". In my view open source software developers owes their users nothing. Many open source projects are developed on people’s free time. Sometime their life changes and projects gets abandoned. It is a fact of life.

The people who develop that software also only have a certain amount of time, and therefore their typically develop against their other projects. So don't expect open source developers testing and continued development to cover what you need for your project.

Next entry:

- Barry Allard, cannot spell "heavily" correctly in his Maintainer Hall of Shame which pulls people up for their mistakes in projects he has probably never contributed to.

That being said, it's a good list otherwise -- I'll keep it in mind when releasing my projects into the wild.

I am not there but I will fix this in my projects. Thanks!