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  • @tess if you don't think the question has an answer, feel free to skip it.

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  • @tess right, and at some point you are not maintaining the software.

    It's not about whether people have a right to demand that you do the job. The question is about how much time the job takes.

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  • @evan I'd say so. Depends on the size of the goal and the importance to the contributor. Definitely not one-size-fits-all there (:

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  • @evan

    And this is where I differ:

    "the question is a practical one for Open Source volunteers"

    No, it is a practical one for established OSS projects, or those looking to take on volunteer maintainers.

    The community sets the standard, not the individual.

    The individual can choose to abide by the standards of the community or not, and there may or may not be consequences within the community.

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  • @evan

    So that's a completely different question.

    If you're *applying* to be a volunteer maintainer *on an existing project you do not own*, then obviously, there will be expectations set by the existing community, which will be different for every single project.

    For reference: I write primarily OSS software, but I do it professionally. So, naturally, my employer sets the expectations for my contribution.

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  • @tess the question is a practical one for Open Source volunteers. How much time should you have in your schedule before you take a role as a maintainer for a project (or launch a new project)?

    Do you do any Open Source software maintenance? What about other volunteer roles? Do you at least estimate how much work it's going to take, or do you just say yes (or no) automatically?

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  • @evan

    Say I have a moment in my life when I have a bunch of free time and I create something cool and put it on github.

    Say a bunch of people think this is awesome and add it as a dependency for their projects. Maybe a few bigcorps decide to use it.

    Then say I get a different job, or have kids, or get sick, or just get bored or tired.

    And now everyone is emailing me, "when are you gonna fix X?"

    My response is either gonna be "tough luck" or "pay me".

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  • @evan @hober there's lots of python projects that are trivial bindings on top of a stable C API, and lots of header-only C++ libraries that implement specific algorithms correctly and do nothing more. after a certain point there's only so much that can be done before you're just adding entropy

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