> [...] people have made demands on my free time simply because I previously gave them that same gift to help make Python, as if the gift of my free time is in

> [...] people have made demands on my free time simply because I previously gave them that same gift to help make Python, as if the gift of my free time is in perpetuity A long time ago, I worked for a radio station as an audio engineer. Every piece of work I was assigned had a hard deadline for delivery or broadcast, so I often did the easy jobs first and delivered them early to get it out of the way. My boss noticed this, and called me into his office one day to explain to me that if I kept doing this, people would expect that work early every time, or give me less time to do it, and eventually it would bite me. I tend to give some thought to managing expectations is most situations now. Paid or otherwise.