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That's a very different thing than joining GNU. If your package gets adopted by thousands of peoples that's having this community thrust upon you. I still fee
by Ensorceled 4y ago
That's a very different thing than joining GNU. If your package gets adopted by thousands of peoples that's having this community thrust upon you.
I still feel you have an obligation to transfer to someone willing to shoulder the responsibility if this happens, an obligation incurred by publishing it in the first place.
Though, I don't feel too strongly about this.
- Beltalowda 4y agoJim Meyering made the change, who has been maintaining these things from before half the people here were born. Even when taking over maintainership for popular packages later on, people often aren't exactly breaking down the door for it. So my philosophy is simple: "if you do the work, you get to decide". I may like or dislike these decisions, and at times I may even rant about how stupid a certain decision is, but in the end ... the people doing the work get to decide. The alternative of being beholden to a vaguely defined "community" of armchair quarterbacks is much worse, IMO.