README: change CI platform language #2307
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I realized that this section of the README was sounding like an invitation for potential starter projects, without giving people full context on what the "maintain" part of maintaining a tier-one platform would involve (long term commitment from an experienced engineer). In practice, macOS seems to be the main "other" platform that folks are interested in, but it's also the only one that those of us without Apple hardware can't test locally -- every other OS permits virtualization, which makes macOS a uniquely high support burden. To avoid misleading people, I've adjusted the language to remove the suggestion that we're looking for maintainers. It's not that we _aren't_ looking for maintainers, but more that maintaining a platform will be a longer discussion and not merely a PR.
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| inconsistency in linker behavior across platforms, images may not match across | ||
| platforms, so we recommend choosing one. macOS and Illumos are both used as |
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"we recommend choosing one" here feels a bit unclear to me --- choosing one for what? Everyone has chosen a platform in one way or another.
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I realized that this section of the README was sounding like an invitation for potential starter projects, without giving people full context on what the "maintain" part of maintaining a tier-one platform would involve (long term commitment from an experienced engineer). In practice, macOS seems to be the main "other" platform that folks are interested in, but it's also the only one that those of us without Apple hardware can't test locally -- every other OS permits virtualization, which makes macOS a uniquely high support burden.
To avoid misleading people, I've adjusted the language to remove the suggestion that we're looking for maintainers. It's not that we aren't looking for maintainers, but more that maintaining a platform will be a longer discussion and not merely a PR.