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Yeah I agree with this. You can only do want you can do and what you want to do. If there's more than you can or want to do - either pass it over to someone who

Yeah I agree with this. You can only do want you can do and what you want to do. If there's more than you can or want to do - either pass it over to someone who wants to do it or don't do it. If people really want something beyond you means / energy they can submit a PR for it or fork your project. If you're tired of replying to everyone simply have a bot close duplicate issues and let people discuss among themselves in a forum to provide peer assistance. If its your baby and while you want to open source it you don't have any energy or desire to provide support/maintenance - just lock creating issues all together (not ideal, but if people have a community forum they'll be fine). If you're the only person that can review/fix/maintain something then you're part of the problem, not the solution and you might need to hand over to a wider audience or flat out remove yourself as a maintainer.

lukan 3y ago
"Yeah I agree with this. You can only do want you can do and what you want to do" "If you're the only person that can review/fix/maintain something then you're part of the problem, not the solution and you might need to hand over to a wider audience or flat out remove yourself as a maintainer." How do those 2 parts go together? Because the first part is correct, I don't need to do anything. But if I open source something, meaning making a gift to the world, I totally can choose to maintain with as little effort as I want to. I also don't have to provide a forum - that is a project in itself and comes with legal liabilities.
- smcleod 3y ago
  If you’re the only person - and it’s just one of your projects - it doesn’t matter. It’s just a problem if you one person in a group of maintainers of shared code. Usually a forum comes with your VCS tooling (GitHub / GitLab etc…) for free.
  - lukan 3y ago
    It is also a problem, if people use my code for their stuff - and run into problems, that I for whatever reasons won't fix in time. But not my problem. Unless I make it mine.
matheusmoreira 3y ago
> If you're the only person that can review/fix/maintain something then you're part of the problem, not the solution and you might need to hand over to a wider audience or flat out remove yourself as a maintainer. There's really no need for that. An active fork will eventually show up if people care enough. If it keeps improving, it becomes the new upstream and the original gets left behind. That's the way it should be.

lukan 3y ago

"Yeah I agree with this. You can only do want you can do and what you want to do" "If you're the only person that can review/fix/maintain something then you're part of the problem, not the solution and you might need to hand over to a wider audience or flat out remove yourself as a maintainer." How do those 2 parts go together? Because the first part is correct, I don't need to do anything. But if I open source something, meaning making a gift to the world, I totally can choose to maintain with as little effort as I want to. I also don't have to provide a forum - that is a project in itself and comes with legal liabilities.

smcleod 3y ago
If you’re the only person - and it’s just one of your projects - it doesn’t matter. It’s just a problem if you one person in a group of maintainers of shared code. Usually a forum comes with your VCS tooling (GitHub / GitLab etc…) for free.
- lukan 3y ago
  It is also a problem, if people use my code for their stuff - and run into problems, that I for whatever reasons won't fix in time. But not my problem. Unless I make it mine.

matheusmoreira 3y ago

> If you're the only person that can review/fix/maintain something then you're part of the problem, not the solution and you might need to hand over to a wider audience or flat out remove yourself as a maintainer. There's really no need for that. An active fork will eventually show up if people care enough. If it keeps improving, it becomes the new upstream and the original gets left behind. That's the way it should be.