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You don't have to be a BDFL, you can delegate maintenance work to community recruits as it scales up.
by kardos 10y ago
You don't have to be a BDFL, you can delegate maintenance work to community recruits as it scales up.
- acdha 10y agoIt's nice when that works out but it's unfortunately not uncommon to have projects which don't attract volunteers, attract volunteers who have time/interest in fixing one particular thing but not maintaining it smoothly over time, or which simply cycle through people as the cycle of enthusiasm->overload->burnout->resignation repeats. As a community we tend to neglect this side of things since it's neither a fun technical problem nor something a one-time effort can fix, but it deprives the open-source world of too many good developers.