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:::Assuming good faith, Daniel probably meant something like "let me get the bot working, then after that I'll take the extra time and effort to spin up git and a GitHub repo". –[[User:Novem Linguae|<span style="color:blue">'''Novem Linguae'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Novem Linguae|talk]])</small> 20:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
::::I'm always happy to AGF. I guess I was mostly responding to the statement that BRFA doesn't normally require releasing the source code. If that's true, I think it's an unfortunate state of affairs. I was also thinking of a conversation I recently had in another setting regarding the fragility of the whole ecosystem of scripts, bots, and other bits of software on which the smooth running of enwiki depends, and how often some important tool gets abandoned with no practical way for another developer to take it over. But, I really shouldn't be trying to make this particular request a soapbox for all that. [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 21:27, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thanks for sharing your views. I might be open to supporting a rule that complex bots need to have their source code in the BRFA, if proposed on the right talk page. I agree that it helps immensely with keeping old bots running once their owners go inactive. –[[User:Novem Linguae|<span style="color:blue">'''Novem Linguae'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Novem Linguae|talk]])</small> 21:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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