An argument against proxies

March 8, 2018

An argument against proxies # Proxies? In companies getting started with an upstream first concept this is what people are called who act as the only interface between their employer and an open source project: All information from any project used internally flows through them. All bug reports and patches intended as upstream contribution also flows through them - hiding entire teams producing the actual contributions. At Apache projects I learnt to dislike this setup of having proxies act in place of the real contributors. ...