Although if Evan had access to the codebase after he was an employee and if it was the Facebook codebase that was open sourced then Facebook were involved. The original post sounded (to me) like the OSS code wasn’t the same as the FB code.
I think that just backs up my point that it was the Wild West back then in terms of individual decision making.
If memory serves, Evan open sourced Phabricator at Facebook back in 2010 or 2011, then quit to work on it full time.
Shortly after (months, years?) the internal version of Phabricator diverged from the now not FB managed or stewarded OSS one.
However I think it is fair to say, assuming my memory is correct, that Phabricator was open sourced by Facebook at a very different time, before the company really committed to supporting open source projects. At that time it was more ‘if an individual engineer wanted to then go for it’ rather than there being any formal process or consideration of longer term commitments.
That changed fairly shortly afterwards with the creation of the OSS team.
I remember someone transitioning to the newly formed team and moving from Dublin to London to do so in ~2012, as we became housemates :)
Yes. They got burned badly for 'breaking their promises' after being elected into the coalition.
What nobody seems to have realised is that they didn't have anything close to a majority, so of course they weren't able to completely prevent the Tories from doing everything.
It's a shame IMO because what we clearly need right now is a Centralist party, especially with Labour going further and further to the Left under Corbyn.
>> Also, coincidentally, I forgot to kill Facebook last night and when I picked up my phone this morning it was warm. Glad I remembered to leave it plugged in.
Maybe, just maybe, it was warm because it was being charged.
The audience who are likely to make the most use out of a tool like this are not the same as the audience who would be comfortable using a command line tool.
I mean, you can replicate the core functionality of this fairly easily using awk, and if you're happy doing a bit of piping to perl or whatever, the fancier time re-formatting stuff is also easy.
In essence, the complexity in this tool (and what makes it cool) is the figuring out what you are trying to do without telling it - if you can run a command line tool you can tokenise the input yourself and you're most of the way there already.
Although if Evan had access to the codebase after he was an employee and if it was the Facebook codebase that was open sourced then Facebook were involved. The original post sounded (to me) like the OSS code wasn’t the same as the FB code.
I think that just backs up my point that it was the Wild West back then in terms of individual decision making.