Creating or running an open source project can be a thankless task, made worse by the sheer number of entitled jerks who can find you and your project via the I

Creating or running an open source project can be a thankless task, made worse by the sheer number of entitled jerks who can find you and your project via the Internet. If you're selling software for pay, at least there's money in your pocket to compensate you for having to deal with the various types of a*oles in the human race, but without that it can rapidly become a chore to maintain even a small or niche package. That's why lots of software becomes orphaned. I salute anyone who has ever had the courage to try to write, maintain, or organize development for open source software.