> Looking at the website one of homebrew's developers (or at least the website developers) is based over here in Europe. He might be a nice target if you want to raise a stink and litigate.
Homebrew lead maintainer here. We're chronically understaffed and underfunded. We have analytics so we can make Homebrew better by figuring out how to prioritise security, maintenance and bug fixes on packages based on how much they are used and how often they fail. I've been working on making regular dumps of this data and have been trying to find people who will provide us with non-Google hosting but: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded.
One of our CI machines burnt out last night so I'm now trying to plan vacation time to drive for a 14 hour round trip and pick it up. While I'm doing that someone points out there's someone on Hacker News threatening to sue me. This is for working on software (mostly) in my free time that's used by people (mostly) for their employment and obtained for free. After the last thread on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720) I had people emailing me to tell me I'm a nazi and should kill myself for weeks.
Everyone here who objects to the analytics is well within their rights to do so (and should either opt-out or stop using Homebrew) but we need to start asking ourselves as a community whether we think treating open-source maintainers like this is more or less likely to encourage more people to work on the open-source software you rely on to do your job.
Homebrew lead maintainer here. We're chronically understaffed and underfunded. We have analytics so we can make Homebrew better by figuring out how to prioritise security, maintenance and bug fixes on packages based on how much they are used and how often they fail. I've been working on making regular dumps of this data and have been trying to find people who will provide us with non-Google hosting but: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded.
One of our CI machines burnt out last night so I'm now trying to plan vacation time to drive for a 14 hour round trip and pick it up. While I'm doing that someone points out there's someone on Hacker News threatening to sue me. This is for working on software (mostly) in my free time that's used by people (mostly) for their employment and obtained for free. After the last thread on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720) I had people emailing me to tell me I'm a nazi and should kill myself for weeks.
Everyone here who objects to the analytics is well within their rights to do so (and should either opt-out or stop using Homebrew) but we need to start asking ourselves as a community whether we think treating open-source maintainers like this is more or less likely to encourage more people to work on the open-source software you rely on to do your job.