Though I don’t have much hope for improvement; Dave Filoni seems little better.

On the bright side, if the GitHub Action documentation has glaring holes, you are sometimes permitted to fix it yourself.

Me too, via Protopage. I greatly prefer choosing which stories to read from a balanced selection of headlines from unbalanced sources, to prioritizing what some subeditor wants me to read.

A worthy cause (and who among us does not need more plush gnus?), but a starting bid for them of $200 does rather emphasize the distinct uses of the term “free” in the organization name.

> They need a pedantic and incredibly driven hard-ass...

I hate to agree, but Jobs' departure (which roughly coincided with my own return to Apple quality assurance) was about the peak of software quality. Some of it was management lack of fear of bugs in the absence of a high-ranking pedant, some of it was the consequence of a hardware-schedule-driven software release cycle, and some of it was cultural: a lack of old-fashioned testing and test planning in favor of automating whatever was easy to automate. More at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

> How hard is it to not only get this basic functionality right but to break it in the first place?

Testing everything that used to work is actually hard; it generally requires a formal written test plan, covering every documented feature. This in turn requires serious documentation, which also takes a lot of work, especially given developers' lack of enthusiasm for self-expression.

Disclaimer: I'm part of the problem, as I left Apple QA voluntarily, thereby decreasing its institutional memory, with disparate impact on authorship of formal test plans.

There were serious allegations of actual misconduct _after_ Stallman was forced out; I don’t know enough about the specifics to comment, and I wouldn’t have objected if he’d been terminated after due process. As for what happened in the 1990s—I’m not sure I completely agree about “what the creation of the open source movement was,” but that is a separate issue from his more recent premature cancellation.

Regardless of Mr Stallman’s opinions (many of which I disagree with), the late Mr Epstein’s reprehensible conduct, and the late Professor Minsky’s involvement with him (far from clear), the pedantic comment that got Stallman cancelled was simply mischaracterized or misunderstood by the mob doing the cancelling.

> everybody else can read along as well. Internally Tesla should of course still have a good bug tracker

A clear sign of a good organization is that it has a bug tracker in which a member of the public can post and _track_ his bugs. (My rule of thumb is that a product that only allows bug reports via email is not worth filing bugs against.) A really good product lets the public track and search the bugs as well; e.g. compare Apple with LLVM.

> Reminds me a lot of BritBox, which similarly is full of rubbish that you wouldn't pay for...

My wife and I felt that Civilisation (https://www.britbox.com/us/show/Civilisation_FS_b00dtjbv) was worth paying for. De gustibus non disputandum est.

> Let them face true competition.

I'm no fan of Verizon in general, but they do face competition in NYC from Spectrum (which has been inundating me with junk mail). Perhaps coincidentally, Verizon provides far better connectivity than I got during decades in Silicon Valley. I misread my first ping results, as I'd never seen a single-digit latency.

I've posted an extended rant on Apple software quality: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

> Early adopters? There have to be *some* people that find all the problems so
> people further along in the adoption curve know what to work around.

I’m so old I remember when the term for those people was "software testers."

Disclaimer: Ex-Apple software tester still on High Sierra, as I want to manage my iPhone apps and run the last good version of M$ Word.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019...

It sounds to me like he's studied logic, which I commend to your attention.