Post #2823518

2026-05-23 14:19 UTC

I&#39;d be interested in testimonies of other &quot;semi-maintainers&quot;. I consider myself as a &quot;semi-maintainer&quot; of OpenJPEG (maybe &quot;25%-maintainer&quot; would be more accurate), given there is no complementary half/75%. That is I only care about fixing issues that directly affect me/my customers, occasionally merging a &quot;trivial&quot; pull request or doing minimal work to keep CI working. But I&#39;m generally not willing to dig in code I&#39;m not familiar with, including addressing security issues. What to do... ?

Replies (6)

@gisgeek@floss.social 2026-05-23 14:41

@EvenRouault@mastodon.social We should all recognize the existence and dignity of the 'good enough' code: code that works enough as is, is maintained enough, and does not need big evolutions. They often call that a dead-end code, but I disagree. It is simply good enough for its purpose, and fuck the majority.

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@pwramsey@mastodon.social 2026-05-23 15:15

@EvenRouault@mastodon.social This feels like Y2K, except there's no code owner with an incentive to fix the security issues. For projects with 100% maintainership, we can probably weather it, but you're right, the not-quite-dead projects that are still being used... they are about to become unclosed security holes.

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@ajnn@snabelen.no 2026-05-24 03:45

@Shadowfetch@indieweb.social @EvenRouault@mastodon.social I’ve been meaning to do more or less the same thing for some of my stuff. I like your wording, might end up using it!

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@strk@mapstodon.space 2026-05-24 06:30

@Shadowfetch@indieweb.social @ajnn@snabelen.no "this software Is distributed as is, no warranty", that's how the GPL words it, more or less

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@sgillies@mastodon.social 2026-05-23 16:28

@EvenRouault@mastodon.social be careful... if you decapitate a JPEG library three more sprout in its place.

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@strk@mapstodon.space 2026-05-24 06:33

@EvenRouault@mastodon.social I'd do nothing I don't need or I'm payed to do. Let's get back to the basis of this. When did we start feeling pressured to fix other people's problems ? If anyone asks for help, teach them to fish.

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