Free == Freedom to walk away from maintaining the damn thing. If other people can't be bothered to contribute, that's tough. A few dollars in the tip jar hardly

Free == Freedom to walk away from maintaining the damn thing. If other people can't be bothered to contribute, that's tough. A few dollars in the tip jar hardly counts, given what most coders could charge for their time and expertise. I've given up writing free software since too many people want a free ride. Even after telling them "I have no interest in helping you fix your Linux installation on the way to making the software work", or "It wasn't designed to run with sqlite, only MySQL, and I have no time to change that", people keep keep keep coming back and demanding more time. "Which part of 'no' did you not understand?" If an ecosystem doesn't develop around your software, if you have no other maintainers, and if you have a life, you should probably just leave it.