Homebrew: Features and Funding

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Homebrew Features and Funding Mike McQuaid

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Mike McQuaid https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid A

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Features

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new features

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who doesn’t love ❤ new features

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who doesn’t love ❤ new features (that are broken )

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Homebrew <1.0 brew update == git fetch git checkout -B master \ origin/master

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Homebrew >1.0 (some people) brew update == git fetch git checkout -B master \ origin/master

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Homebrew >1.0 (most people) brew update == git fetch --tags git checkout $(git tag \ --sort=-version:refname | head -n1)

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wait am I “some people”

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Most Software:

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do you want to use the βeta?

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do you love bugs?

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do you hate yourself?

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Homebrew

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does Mike hate me?

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(kinda)

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but why tho?

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(you are special)

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(you are curious)

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(you are helpful)

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COMMANDS and DEVELOPER COMMANDS

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COMMANDS == brew install wget

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brew edit wget == DEVELOPER COMMANDS

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~99.9% and ~0.1%

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stable (latest tag) and master

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but why tho?

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COMMANDS == “I ran brew install and it didn’t work”

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“Here’s a reproducible test case for a brew install edge case” == DEVELOPER COMMANDS

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“Here’s a working, green pull request for a brew install edge case” == DEVELOPER COMMANDS

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NO MIKE STOP THIS RIGHT NOW

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export HOMEBREW_UPDATE_TO_TAG=1

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YES MIKE START THIS RIGHT NOW

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export HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER=1

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Feature flags

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Would you like to try my new feature

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Would you like to try my new feature (it is completely broken)

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does Mike hate me?

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(not yet) ⏳

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export HOMEBREW_GIMME_DAT_BROKEN_FEATURE=1

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if ENV[“HOMEBREW_GIMME_DAT_BROKEN_FEATURE”]

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if HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER=1

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if HOMEBREW_DEV_CMD_RUN=1

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stable

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Mike then CI then Maintainers then Beta Users then Everyone

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Would you like to try my new feature (it is completely broken)

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Would you like to have new features (not completely broken)

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(blatant employer plug) A

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Mike then Mike’s team then GitHub staff then (sometimes) Maintainers then (sometimes) Beta Users then Everyone

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Funding

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Would you like to have new features (is open source broken)

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(like a database but EVEN BETTER)

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(I wrote the code but now I want a Tesla)

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(VCs: As long as you give us unsustainable growth forever: here’s millions of $$$)

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(Amazon won’t give us money it’s so unfair!!!!1)

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is open source broken?

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are open source companies broken?

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(I don’t care and neither should you)

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what does your project need money for?

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(I wrote the code but now I want a Tesla)

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(I wrote the code but now I want a binary host)

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(I wrote the code but now I want a “cloud”) ⛅

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(I wrote the code but now I want a CI system)

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2013: Kickstarter

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2013: £14,859

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2013: 4 Mac minis

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2016: SFC

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2016: legal entity

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2016: USA 501c3

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2016: PayPal

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2016: Bank

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2017: Patreon

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2017: README

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2018: Twitter

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2019: brew

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would you like to donate

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No content

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2019: GitHub Sponsors

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sell your user data!

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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