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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by CravingLogic on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:24AM (#25032168)
I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years.

Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by miken123 on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:38AM (#25032236)
I guess this didn't help:

"I lost all my stuff in an apartment fire and am barely staying unhomeless. Lost access to most of my accounts. All precious metal is missing. If anyone could bless [email protected] with a little cash it would help me from freezing on the street. lol."

https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by dtparr on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:59AM (#25032372)
Yeah, he appears to be in a bad way.

"If anyone can provide me a safe place to live or sanctuary please send DM. I'm looking for any friendly tribe to take me in. Send help yesterday."

https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by sleepychu on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:28AM (#25032195)
179 open issues as of now https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+....

Looks like people want new data generation, new generation interfaces.

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by gfody on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:34AM (#25032217)
a programmer's work is never done. I imagine this is doubly true for anything js related. this project has 179 open issues and 85 open PRs, impressively almost as many issues as lines of code!
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by bdcravens on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:28AM (#25032190)
With 179 open issues, many of which seem related to bugs or out of date information, seems like there's quite a bit to maintain.
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by chillfox on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:27AM (#25032179)
I am guessing it's the usual, either money or time problems. Could also be burnout I suppose.
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by pmontra on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:46AM (#25032286)
Or a change of work environment. Too much paid work or no more JavaScript, who knows.

I've been offered to take over the development and maintenance of a small Ruby gem many years ago. I think I contributed a patch or something. I needed that gem in my current Rails project, probably not in the next one. Furthermore I don't work only with Ruby. So I refused.

Something like faker is useful in nearly every project and I contributed to the Elixir faker (my customer agreed to that, we needed it.) I learned a couple of things of the Elixir environment in the process. By the way, nice team and great tooling. Would I take over that package if offered? Again no, because I don't use Elixir full time and I'd rather drop another contribution whenever I need it. No time to work on fixes and look at issues not related to my work.

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by aldanor on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:10AM (#25032460)
Or the apartment fire. See the comment above.