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> the purest intent of doing it for sheer joy or scratching your own itch... ...is great for as long as the joy or itch lasts. But the same problem still occur
by ChrisSD 6y ago
> the purest intent of doing it for sheer joy or scratching your own itch...
...is great for as long as the joy or itch lasts. But the same problem still occurs, at some point a single maintainer is going to lose enthusiasm or have other itches they want to scratch. This becomes especially true when maintenance starts to feel more like a chore.
And in open source projects it can get even worse. Github users can be especially demanding and there are often those who express their demands in very "confrontational" ways. Faced with that it can be difficult to remain invested.
- rikroots 6y agoThe good thing about open source (and GitHub) is that I can walk away from it when I lose interest in the project. I did this in 2015, went back to scratch the itch in 2017 and only returned properly to it (to rewrite it from scratch) in early 2019. Of course I was in a good position to do this because the project (at the time) had few stars and nobody was raising issues.