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A comment on Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it?.

Re:Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it? by keikobadthebad on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:32AM (#33148436)
The motivation to write it was to do something useful the best quality I knew how.

To continue maintaining it, it's mainly a feeling of being stuck doing it the last years. Some of the practical aspects have become a huge burden.

Internal and external motivation are quite different.

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it? by paydevs on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:10AM (#33151623)
What do you mean by "practical aspects have become a huge burden"? Is it fixing bugs, adapting to changing environments, feature requests by user, communicating with your userbase, or something else?
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