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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Also, revolt self hosting is broken. The web call functionality (WebRTC) is being rewritten but that effort is stale and out of the box it simply does not work. There is no real documentation about this either. It just won’t work and you need to invest a lot of effort to figure out why. The moment self hosting properly works, I’ll give it another shot. Not being able to connect without a fat client is a show stopper for me. There’s no way I can get enough traction for my groups if the barrier to switch is higher than a sheet of paper.

    When self hosting all the shortcomings you mentioned are perfectly acceptable for me.



  • It’s the same problem as with any other software development: Politics (literally). Some decisions are made by people who are not qualified to make them. Because of the scale of the project, these decisions affect hundreds of devs across dozens of teams with millions of euros swinging one way or the other. Apart from that, when divide and conquer is done properly, the work of each individual team isn’t too different compared to software development in commercial companies. Everything is a bit more relaxed, though. That can be a boon but can also be infuriating if you’re waiting for licenses, hardware, or some team to act.






  • Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it’s feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn’t matter, the outcome is still worth it.