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So glad I don't maintain open source for some viral scale fanciness. Seems like a lot of work for generally no pay. I know a lot is company supported but a lot
by sfgweilr4f 7y ago
So glad I don't maintain open source for some viral scale fanciness. Seems like a lot of work for generally no pay. I know a lot is company supported but a lot more isn't. Then there's those people demanding support for free. And other's demands for you to review their code and apply it 5 seconds from when they send it in.
Seems like I'd take a few days off one week and a twitter storm would brew and then a doxing campaign would fire up and there would be lynchmobs and angry pitchforks outside the building where I work. Obligatory comparison to Hitler or such and then I'd shrug and say, "its a tetris clone, people, calm down!"
I'm hoping that is all an exaggeration. But from what I have seen recently its not that far off in terms of online hate that can appear.
Is there a guide for maintainers of such things so deal with the generic overhead that must come from having a "community" around some popular tech software?