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Until you start asking for free support, free consulting, etc. People are generally a-holes. I stopped working on most of my open source projects because of it
by gigel82 4y ago
Until you start asking for free support, free consulting, etc. People are generally a-holes.
I stopped working on most of my open source projects because of it. I still open source stuff that I actively use / work on, but don't actively advertise the projects, and ignore any unreasonable request (all MIT, so anyone can fork as they please). Not worth the mental health burden, I get enough of that from my day-job :)
- marcosdumay 4y agoWell, you can ask people to pay for support, or you can ask them to shut the fuck up. You can also do what they ask from you. You are free to choose. The real problem is that people were sucked into a social network when all they wanted was some easy to manage public code repositories. If that's a problem for you, fight the social network, but this is not an open source problem.
- sibit 4y ago> I stopped working on most of my open-source projects because of it. I've yet to get any traction on any of my open-source projects outside of myself, some old coworkers, and a few dozen random people. This morning while looking at someone else's semi-abandoned project I noticed there were 600 unaddressed open issues so I figured I would jump in and try to help some people. After answering the same question for the 4th time (linking them to the official documentation) I started to feel truly grateful that nothing I've released has become popular.