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I see no problem with someone developing something for fame and glory and not really want to put lots of effort into maintainance. It if it gets popular, the c
by zizee 6y ago
I see no problem with someone developing something for fame and glory and not really want to put lots of effort into maintainance.
It if it gets popular, the community (aka users) can maintain it. If the community also does not want to put in the effort to maintain it, they cannot really complain about the original author also wanting the same.
The only problem is when the original author doesn't want to maintain things, and also rejects help with maintenance. If that occurs, a motivated community can fork things and continue.
- Koiwai 6y agoThis theory assumed things that are useful could always gather enough interest, an exception was demonstrated by openssl several years ago, and also https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/
- BelenusMordred 6y agoI see this said a lot about openssl due to heartbleed but there's not that much to maintain in established crypto libraries and openssl is certainly maintained if not basically omnipotent in security libs. I wouldn't say anything nice about the UX that resulted after a few decades or building for embedded but for the most part it does what it claims on the box.
- zizee 6y agoThat could absolutely happen. But this scenario is no more the fault of the original author than everyone else that had a choice in using that software, but also refusing to maintain it themselves.