KJayMiller

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    On Companies Sponsoring Tech Communities

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    I look at the challenge of sustaining open-source projects like pgBackRest and how community funding is fading despite their critical role in developer ecosystems.

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    > They were not interested. They had RAM to buy and GPUs to provision. The...

    They were not interested. They had RAM to buy and GPUs to provision. The AI gold rush has thoroughly reshuffled what companies consider worth paying for, and apparently “the person who makes sure your data survives a disaster” did not make the cut.

    To Companies, we are resources and are evaluated against other resources. AI resources, GPUs, RAM and data companies bring the possibility of "massively scalable attention" and "investment" of which we're just not capable.

    Its depressing to know but it's the reality of the situation.

    ↗ https://mydbanotebook.org/posts/pgbackrest-is-dead.-now-what/
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    With news that PGBackrest being EOL'd I'm interested in hearing that the...

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    With news that PGBackrest being EOL'd I'm interested in hearing that the Enterprise #PostgreSQL Community is thinking about this.

    There are a couple companies that have forks. Is this project too important for one company to run and maintain?

    I don't know the maintainer, but the messaging is one that I resonated with. They mentioned that they thought someone would fork it. I wonder if the conversation of donating it to a foundation that could try to help with funding and maintenance of it would work?

    ↗ https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest#notice-of-obsolescence
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