Re:Jamis Buck lets go of Capistrano
by Harkins on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @02:50PM
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Because a lot of people relied on you and you left them hanging. You can beat up on the straw man about killing people, but ditching the project isn't cool.
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Re:Jamis Buck lets go of Capistrano
by larrywright on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @05:06PM
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Sure it is. Jamis did this work for free, he doesn't owe you or anyone else any of his time to continue to maintain an application that he has burned out on.
Open source software gets abandoned all the time. This is only being discussed here because Jamis took the gentleman's approach and informed everyone that he was stepping down.
People say there isn't an entitlement mentality amongst people these days, but this kind of reaction is pretty compelling evidence that there is.
Open Source just doesn't work that way. People move on. I'm sure for an appropriate price you could find someone to continue to support the software.
It's one thing if people fall back on things they've explicitly promised; it's another if someone just honestly says, "I don't have the time and energy for this anymore."