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Not "unsustainable" for the project or technology, "unsustainable" for the human(s) supporting the project or technology.
by yazaddaruvala 10y ago
Not "unsustainable" for the project or technology, "unsustainable" for the human(s) supporting the project or technology.
- radicsge 10y agoAnd that is exactly one of the reason of the opensource, to get more contributor.. (instead of releasing e.g. binaries..)
- jfim 10y agoYou'd be surprised how many contributors actually have a negative effect on the productivity of core developers. New contributors often require a fair bit of hand holding (just like any new contributor on a codebase, even internal ones) and are not necessarily aware of the general project direction, etc. More contributors doesn't mean more productivity, and often means less, not more.