Re:My time with Rails is up
by solnic on Sunday May 22, 2016 @02:12PM
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Yes, I was on the core team between 2010-20#{hard-to-tell}. DataMapper was created by Sam Smoot and quickly taken over by Dan Kubb who did a crazy amount of work, practically rewriting it and introducing all the crucial features, and then maintained it for a couple of years with the help from a small group of people.
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This is correct. It's probably hard to measure a person's total contribution to DataMapper because the gems are spread out across 20 to 30 repositories, not just dm-core.
I did maintain DM for a few years, but burnt out as there wasn't enough time to keep up with the community demands and work a full time job. There were a couple of years I effectively worked 40-60 hours a week on DM and only 5-10 on work; this wasn't tenable long term and burned me out.
The small dev team, of which solnic was a core member, are an amazing group and there's no way I could've maintained DM for even a fraction of the time I did without their support.