End-users of open-source applications are not "maintainers" but still value readable code. If your software works so well and is so well documented that end-us

End-users of open-source applications are not "maintainers" but still value readable code. If your software works so well and is so well documented that end-users never have to look at the code then there is no problem. I wouldn't recommend writing code to be readable by complete novices, but code that requires less obscure knowledge to read is more valuable.