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The story of Doozer is a classic example of how not to steward an open source project. It was released by two Heroku engineers who promptly completely abandone
by alecthomas 13y ago
The story of Doozer is a classic example of how not to steward an open source project.
It was released by two Heroku engineers who promptly completely abandoned it. By completely I mean did not respond to any communication whatsoever for a year or so, despite a very active community that had sprung up around the project in terms of users and forks. I don't begrudge them their lives (or whatever drew them away), but there were people/companies willing and able to take over maintenance, but not even that happened. It probably would have taken just a few hours to hand over maintainership. Instead, just radio silence.
Eventually there was some movement and the most active group of fork maintainers were given commit access, but by that time any enthusiasm over Doozer was long dead and gone.
- Juha 13y agoI agree. It's a pity Doozer got to this point. I was happy to see that still this years Febrary proactive developers in the google groups (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/doozer/fVcS0y3KuHQ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/doozer/fVcS0y3KuHQ) tried to get the project active and coordinated, but I guess merging different codebases from different forks was too big of a challenge.
- johnbellone 13y agoWhat it really needs is a company like this to get behind it and stewart it.
- iand675 13y agoNot officially a Heroku project AFAIK, but Induction is essentially the same story: https://github.com/Induction/Induction https://github.com/Induction/Induction Open source polyglot database viewer built by Heroku guys, released with a lot of hype, and then radio silence.