sentry

This is a great initiative, but one wonders to which degree this is mostly a marketing stunt, white-washing their own "fair source" efforts. Sentry is a multi-billion company, and Open Source pays exactly none of their bills (though it may serve other purposes). This leads to pages such as [1] where they actively steer users away from self-hosting their "open source" (in name only) solution. Much has been said about Sentry's switch to "Fair Source"[2], but for me personally, the ship of "open source in name only" sailed long before that with the ever-increasing complexity of managing your own setup.[3] It’s clear that the priority here has shifted to pushing users toward their hosted, paid plans. Business models beat licenses every time if you want to understand actual intentions. Disclaimer: I am the solo-everything at a competitor, whic

> Sentry has never been GPL. That was my mistake, my brain remembering wrong. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/9.1.2/LICENSE was its last open source license, MITish, right? As for calling it "*source" and saying "oh we're not pretending its open source"? This is a point of opinion, but I think that's disingenuous marketing, at best.

1) Do you have two separate codebases for free and paid? No. Sentry has one codebase between free and paid. We have a Django monolith plus some services where all our features are implemented: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry https://github.com/getsentry/relay https://github.com/getsentry/snuba https://github.com/getsentry/vroom etc. We have a Docker Compose wrapper in a separate repo: https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted We have a private repo called getsentry/getsentry that is another Django app that imports the public one and uses Django signals (iirc) to meter usage for billing. That is what we deploy to SaaS. All product features are implemented in the public repos. 3) How about employee access? Employee access is managed through UI, I honestly don't know whether it lives in getsentry/sentry (public) or getsentry/getsentry (pr

Sentry is built on-top of Django. It's a good example of a real-world non-trivial code base that has had to adapt as it grew up and scaled up. I haven't looked at the code in a few years, but I used to run it on-premise and found it fairly approachable and well-written, but with just the sorts of hacks you'd expect to see in a software code base that had evolved over time. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry Here's all the database models: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/tree/master/src/sentry/m... Here's an example of hacks in the form of massive caching to improve performance: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/src/sentry/d...

Sentry produces nothing of value? You don't value an open source error tracking and performance monitoring platform? https://github.com/getsentry/sentry