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To me, it appears that your argument presumes something that you believe to be false. Do you believe the devs left because of losing interest, or because of the
by cocoablazing 12y ago
To me, it appears that your argument presumes something that you believe to be false. Do you believe the devs left because of losing interest, or because of the funding of the audit, or both? Do you have a reference for the devs leaving because of anger over the funding?
- tedks 12y agoI had a source for the devs leaving because it was no longer fun anymore that I can't find because of buggy HN features. Are you implying that "the devs lost interest" is mutually exclusive from "the devs were facing burnout from dealing with a hostile community"? To me, the latter is causal to the former, but you might disagree.
- java-man 12y agoI think, in this context, it's not important _why_ developers leave - it's inevitable. In a commercial setting, there is financial motivation for a company to hire and train new developers, but in the case of an open source project this may not be the case. How do we motivate people to fix or continue development of open source projects? Is it possible at all?
- tedks 12y ago>How do we motivate people to fix or continue development of open source projects? Is it possible at all? Hm. Maybe it is impossible to motivate people to continue development of open-source projects. There are very few long-lived open-source projects, and very little open-source code. You're probably right that motivating people by anything other than cold, hard cash is impossible -- after all, what do people want in life besides money?
- LLWM 12y agoSex. You know what you have to do.