bit-rot

Does bitrot have any accepted dimensions?

Every modern source control system can slice and dice the history of a program. There are many tools to statically and dynamically analyze code. What sort of mathematical formula would allow me to integrate the amount of activity in a file along with the number of deployments of that software? We are finding that even if a program com...

Python bindings for libparted?

I'm looking for a way to interact with the GNU libparted library from Python, but so far what I've found, a GSOC project from 2005 and an Ubuntu/debian package that's been dropped from the archive, have been disheartening. Is there something I'm missing, or should I just get used to manipulating libparted from the command line / trying...

Scaling up as an opensource developer

As a passionate opensource developer, I produced a lot of software during the years. In some cases, this software became obsolete due to the fact that I moved to another project, and the platforms changed. I frankly don't have time to maintain my past projects anymore, and I don't have many chances to find a maintainer, as my projects ar...