Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it?

Re:Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it? by boyter on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:08AM (#33148624)

I wanted to learn how to solve the problem. I wanted to learn a new language. I figured since I was doing it anyway I might as well do it openly.

Now I keep doing it because it starts conversations with others and I occasionally see it being used by others which is a big dopamine hit.

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it? by paydevs on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:12AM (#33151653)

And did you fix a problem you had yourself or was it a problem by someone else - esp. if you used a new programming language?

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it? by boyter on Monday October 10, 2022 @06:24PM (#33157100)

Yes. I wrote a tool to assist with estimating and finding the complex portions of a codebase. It works well for the issues I have been facing.

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