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> why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community? one
by bdefore 4y ago
> why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community?
one reason: providing code that others may learn or benefit from even while you recognize that you won't have time to manage a community.
- jeandejean 4y agoI definitely understand there are reasons outside of that, but you should be ready (and happy) for a community to build up on your release of interesting Open Source software.
- bdefore 4y agoit's quite a thrill! until the months fly by and you get a particular kind of tone on an issue opened on your repository for a thing you can't devote time to anymore. and that burn can scar.