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I see nothing wrong with a disclaimer along the lines of "This is a hobby project. As the author I care about this project and want it to be as good as possible
by jacoblambda 6y ago
I see nothing wrong with a disclaimer along the lines of "This is a hobby project. As the author I care about this project and want it to be as good as possible but don't expect the kind of polish you'd see in projects with corporate backings." It doesn't discredit the project in any capacity, it just tempers users expectations.
- Dayshine 6y agoBut this is clearly the default situation for any project not hosted under an organisation.
- jacoblambda 6y agoYou'd assume so but as others have recently started posting in the comments on this thread, maintainers for small projects regularly get barraged with demands and spam/other forms of aggression in retaliation for not meeting said demands. I'm not sure why but some people like to assume that just because you posted something online that you must fix any problem people have while using it and add any feature that it doesn't have. I suspect that this is the main reason those "This is a hobby. Please don't get mad at me if there's a problem" README tags started showing up.
- guggle 6y ago"(just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) "