Homebrew: Features and Funding

A talk about the Homebrew package manager and how we've been working with our users to introduce new features to subsets of users, encouraging users to donate to the project and communicating both these to as many users as possible without being annoying.

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1. Homebrew Features and Funding Mike McQuaid
2. Mike McQuaid https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid A
3. Features
4. new features
5. who doesn’t love ❤ new features
6. who doesn’t love ❤ new features (that are broken )
7. Homebrew <1.0 brew update == git fetch git checkout -B master \ origin/master
8. Homebrew >1.0 (some people) brew update == git fetch git checkout -B master \ origin/master
9. Homebrew >1.0 (most people) brew update == git fetch --tags git checkout $(git tag \ --sort=-version:refname | head -n1)
10. wait am I “some people”
11. Most Software:
12. do you want to use the βeta?
13. do you love bugs?
14. do you hate yourself?
15. Homebrew
16. does Mike hate me?
17. (kinda)
18. but why tho?
19. (you are special)
20. (you are curious)
21. (you are helpful)
22. COMMANDS and DEVELOPER COMMANDS
23. COMMANDS == brew install wget
24. brew edit wget == DEVELOPER COMMANDS
25. ~99.9% and ~0.1%
26. stable (latest tag) and master
27. but why tho?
28. COMMANDS == “I ran brew install and it didn’t work”
29. “Here’s a reproducible test case for a brew install edge case” == DEVELOPER COMMANDS
30. “Here’s a working, green pull request for a brew install edge case” == DEVELOPER COMMANDS
31. NO MIKE STOP THIS RIGHT NOW
32. export HOMEBREW_UPDATE_TO_TAG=1
33. YES MIKE START THIS RIGHT NOW
34. export HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER=1
35. Feature flags
36. Would you like to try my new feature
37. Would you like to try my new feature (it is completely broken)
38. does Mike hate me?
39. (not yet) ⏳
40. export HOMEBREW_GIMME_DAT_BROKEN_FEATURE=1
41. if ENV[“HOMEBREW_GIMME_DAT_BROKEN_FEATURE”]
42. if HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER=1
43. if HOMEBREW_DEV_CMD_RUN=1
44. stable
45. Mike then CI then Maintainers then Beta Users then Everyone
46. Would you like to try my new feature (it is completely broken)
47. Would you like to have new features (not completely broken)
48. (blatant employer plug) A
49. Mike then Mike’s team then GitHub staff then (sometimes) Maintainers then (sometimes) Beta Users then Everyone
50. Funding
51. Would you like to have new features (is open source broken)
52. (like a database but EVEN BETTER)
53. (I wrote the code but now I want a Tesla)
54. (VCs: As long as you give us unsustainable growth forever: here’s millions of $$$)
55. (Amazon won’t give us money it’s so unfair!!!!1)
56. is open source broken?
57. are open source companies broken?
58. (I don’t care and neither should you)
59. what does your project need money for?
60. (I wrote the code but now I want a Tesla)
61. (I wrote the code but now I want a binary host)
62. (I wrote the code but now I want a “cloud”) ⛅
63. (I wrote the code but now I want a CI system)
64. 2013: Kickstarter
65. 2013: £14,859
66. 2013: 4 Mac minis
67. 2016: SFC
68. 2016: legal entity
69. 2016: USA 501c3
70. 2016: PayPal
71. 2016: Bank
72. 2017: Patreon
73. 2017: README
74. 2018: Twitter
75. 2019: brew
76. would you like to donate
78. 2019: GitHub Sponsors
79. sell your user data!
80. would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate would you like to donate
81. Homebrew Pro™®©
82. Homebrew SOLD OUT!!!!111
83. Homebrew Still Quite Good™