Re:Moment().endOf(‘term’)
by niftich on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:29PM
(#12176255)
Great job on Moment.js, and I'm sorry it caused as much pain as it did to Tim.
I think he fell victim to being too nice and accommodating. I remember 'follow'-ing the Moment issue tracker on github at a time when I followed a few other high-profile libraries, like pdf.js, requests, redis, Joda-Time... and Moment.js's issue tracker was flooded with an extreme volume of issues that made it difficult for me, a much-removed, half-interested third-party, to continue using Github.
Many of these were bug reports, but even more of them were feature requests and usage questions, and I am frankly surprised that Tim served as maintainer for as long as he did, given the cognitive load.
It's easy to be wise in hindsight, but I truly believe that more aggressive moderation by a dedicated team, and more efforts to intentionally limit scope would have benefited Moment.js and its community.
I think he fell victim to being too nice and accommodating. I remember 'follow'-ing the Moment issue tracker on github at a time when I followed a few other high-profile libraries, like pdf.js, requests, redis, Joda-Time... and Moment.js's issue tracker was flooded with an extreme volume of issues that made it difficult for me, a much-removed, half-interested third-party, to continue using Github.
Many of these were bug reports, but even more of them were feature requests and usage questions, and I am frankly surprised that Tim served as maintainer for as long as he did, given the cognitive load.
It's easy to be wise in hindsight, but I truly believe that more aggressive moderation by a dedicated team, and more efforts to intentionally limit scope would have benefited Moment.js and its community.