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In that case the maintainer needs to have some self-restraint and accept that they don't owe them anything. If somebody depends on the maintainer's package for
by chrysoprace 9mo ago
In that case the maintainer needs to have some self-restraint and accept that they don't owe them anything. If somebody depends on the maintainer's package for a critical component then they should consider paying them and possibly drawing up an explicit contract. That's what we did at my work for a critical open source component, where we paid the maintainer to add several features we needed.
- zephen 9mo agoIt's commendable that your organization did this. But... > the maintainer needs to have some self-restraint and accept that they don't owe them anything. Assumes (especially in cases where "maintainer == original author" psychological capabilities that simply might not exist in the maintainer. I don't know of a good way to deal with this, other than to be kind and try to notice potential signs of impeding burn-out before an implosion.