Talk:Olive (software)

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Maybe write about how it was made by MattKC?[edit]

See the title. Would make a good "History" section, anyway. TheTechRobo (talk) 02:38, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While this would be an interesting thing to talk about (in theory), there are a few issues with this idea:

MattKC isn't notable by any means (no offense to him), so it would be useless info to 99.9% of people who just want to learn about the software itself, rather than who made it. Think about it, would the average person care that Linus Torvalds made Linux? Probably not.
Matt has made the clearly deliberate decision to make it as difficult as possible to work out who works on Olive, likely to maintain a sense of professionalism. The only times it's been mentioned would be a few live-streams and the ownership of the Git repo.
Speaking of mentioning it, a live-stream or a commit log is a primary source, and not a very reliable one at that. Wikipedia doesn't like primary sources, mostly because of conflict of interest issues and the biased nature of a person or organization referring to themselves.

Smochort11 (talk) 22:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For reference on the conflict-of-interest: WP:OR Smochort11 (talk) 22:51, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]