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Hi geoah, Looking back, I think following this contribution model of open source but no contribution would definitely help me. In the beginning, I hadn't a lot
by farslan 6y ago
Hi geoah,
Looking back, I think following this contribution model of open source but no contribution would definitely help me. In the beginning, I hadn't a lot of experience managing a large open source project. I would accept all kinds of feature PR's or tried to implement all the features people suggested and wanted from me. Obviously that was one of the main drivers of vim-go's popularity.
However, this popularity also brought me down and I had a burnout.
The problem with this one-person/popular projects are, it's not scalable. People recommend finding a maintainer, but that's not always possible and pretty hard. The main problem is, it's a niche product. Like you need to find someone who loves Vim, loves Go and also wants to be a part of a project. (I was lucky to find someone like that though, thank you Billie!).
I still enjoy writing software on the side, but I think I've lost the energy and appetite to work +4 hours (on top of my full time job) every single day. Having two kids, getting older probably contributed to it :) I'm happy though how things have evolved right now. I found my inner peace.