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It's nice to see this happen, Being a good maintainer requires a particular mindset. I do not have this mindset. I am a maintainer. I have been absent from o
by Lerc 2y ago
It's nice to see this happen, Being a good maintainer requires a particular mindset.
I do not have this mindset.
I am a maintainer.
I have been absent from one of my projects for 9 months. People actually use this thing. That eats me up inside. That anxiety is partially why it's difficult to start up again.
I am the kind of person who makes things, unfortunately when you make things you become the maintainer by default. It's not easy to hand over maintainership either though, you want to ensure the project is in good hands. One of my old projects has been absorbed into Linux Mint and that's quite gratifying to see that a project I made maybe a decade ago get a Catalan translation in just the last few months.
- rtpg 2y agoI do maintenance on a library and while often I feel bad about not looking at it for months at a time, I’ll try to counterbalance it by just sitting down one evening , swallowing my pride, and just chew through some of the issues. In the end, it’s always a bit satisfying to do. Still not a great situation but I’m trying at least.
- keybored 2y agoThis is their dayjob.