@croncobaurul @kiriparr @doctorow @anabmap @shannonmattern Most greenfield development is not innovative. I think it's not stuck as demeaning if strong, well respected software engineers own the title. I call myself a software plumber or maintenance software engineer in my current role and have no issue with it

@croncobaurul @kiriparr @doctorow @anabmap @shannonmattern Open source maintenance is demeaning because it's not fairly paid at market rate. No matter what respect you have in the community, you need your work to translate to calories