My employer: we love open source software. Such a beautiful thing.
Me: you'll allow us time to contribute then, right?
My employer: Aah, the beauty of untouchable things
My employer: we love open source software. Such a beautiful thing.
Me: you'll allow us time to contribute then, right?
My employer: Aah, the beauty of untouchable things
Sharing this here as a lot of people already know how Ernest, the lead Kbin developer, got burned out by the project.
Treat maintainers like the humans they are, not free infrastructure.
Seems like a good reminder. Sometimes you see requests from users that are phrased as if the dev owes them something, rather than a request to another human being. It can be for a platform, a front-end, an app, an instance.
On the other hand, a lot of people seem to remember the human, it's nice to see.
Yes. Sad thing is, if you google for "open source developers burnout" you'll find people write pretty much this article twice a year for like 6 years now. I made up the numbers but it's roughly that direction, maybe more.
I did. I stopped contributing to Open Source back in the 2000s when I saw that all of the dot com stuff was being built on unpaid opensource labor. Now I contribute (financially) to the products I use, and stopped contributing code, testing, or documentation elsewhere.
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