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@mcc mdns is haunted

@evan who's using the project? am i in a hurry to get it finished for some reason or is this a hobby project? do i have the tools in place or are their restraints on when i can get them and use them? am i doing this full-time or part-time? do i have other stuff going on?

@evan "how much time should you spend on a woodworking project?"

a chair?
a table?
a wardrobe?
a system of cabinets across a house?

@evan coaching a kid's soccer team is an amount of work that can be approximately quantified in some way because that implies the scope of the necessary work

not so of the original question. give people a break. :)

@evan @mitchellh that question couldn't be answered without knowing the size of the project, how active its development is, etc. no general answer can be given.

@evan @ted forking is always, *always* an option and sometimes *absolutely* the right one for the case where a barely-maintained hobby project gets used by somebody else and it becomes a dependency, unexpectedly to the original author

@evan @ted the corollary is that you shouldn't promise maintainership you can't provide.

so if you maintain a project *that people use and you don't have time or inclination to do the work they need* you have two options:

* recommend someone else do it (add maintainers or let them fork it)
* get support so you can do that instead of a different day job

@evan @ted thanks evan for clarifying the poll :) this is why poeple ask.

if i were to exclude all the cases where lots of ongoing work isn't required to serve customers, i still would reply "less than 4" because if nobody's paying you for it, you're

under
no
obligation

if customers want that labor and they're not getting it for free the customers have to step up and provide some financial support

@evan @mitchellh evan, please stop being a dick to people replying honestly in good faith to your polls because your wording was unclear about the secret second question. you know better <3

@evan also the *required* maintenance for a mature, small, or rarely used project is often less than 4 hours a month.

don't invent work requirements for people who happen to publish projects with open source licenses!

@evan @preinheimer @joergi that's a separate follow up question, evan <3 ;)

@evan as much or as little as they want to; they're under no obligation to perform unpaid labor by definition. [4 hours or less]

@cwebber @wingo oh these are both relevant to my interesters

booty shorts with the words "undefined behavior"

@eniko i wanna make a scrolling tile engine so bad

i don't even care about the game i just wanna play around with tiles and sprites :D

damn me and my very long list of projects i've already committed my "free time" to

@ashley

atproto = "distributed" like housewives stars; there's few of them and they're very expensive to maintain

activitypub = "distributed" like survivor stars; they're all completely psycho but they can built a functioning shelter from parts they found in the woods, and there's like 100 seasons

@SnoopJ @mcc some shiBOWLey and a nice gabbaGOOL

@evan

ethernet man,
ethernet man,
does everything that a network can
usually kind to wifi man
lives all his life where the cables ran,
ethernet man

token ring man,
token ring man,
don't you forget to terminate, man
they have a fight
ethernet wins
ethernet man!

@bd808 @evan Windows NT beat OS/2

i have been promised poutine tonight

gonna get my cholesterol on