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I had similar feelings, so I don't open source things anymore. I wrote about it here: http://brianknapp.me/open-source-guilt/ http://brianknapp.me/open-source-g

I had similar feelings, so I don't open source things anymore. I wrote about it here: http://brianknapp.me/open-source-guilt/ http://brianknapp.me/open-source-guilt/ For me, open source projects aren't worth my free time. I'm fine with giving code away. I'm less fine maintaining it years later.

pgeorgi 11y ago
Back in the day, open source projects were just a tarball on some ftp server. Maybe, just maybe, the README contained an email address to send patches to. That probably wasn't such a bad model after all. If you worry about endless support via email, create per-project aliases that at some point may autoreply "this project is not supported any longer. Feel free to set up your own fork".