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We don't know how much pay/sponsorship was the issue here. It seems to me that the maintainer was simply overworked and slept very, very little. This is bearab
by dgb23 5y ago
We don't know how much pay/sponsorship was the issue here. It seems to me that the maintainer was simply overworked and slept very, very little.
This is bearable for a certain amount of time but after that one really has to look after themselves, regardless of financial interests or a crash is inevitable.
- rvz 5y agoTrue, burnout is inevitable with a single developer. That's why paid support or sponsorship is used to hire more developers / contributors to reduce the risk of the project stagnating due to one developer burning out. Either way, no developer wants to do free work on someone else's deadline and it is always done in their own time, unless they want to pay for the effort.
- chii 5y ago> overworked and slept very, very little i would say overwork and no/low pay are the same thing. If you have a large amount of work being demanded of you by users/companies, then it's time to charge money for the time that would've taken. The charge should be big enough to replace your day job. If it's not, then don't do it, except for any fun bits that you would've already done.