Professional maintainers: a wake-up call

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WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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  • sh

    Python process launching

  • For start, https://github.com/amoffat/sh seems to not even mention this problem.

    No idea whether it would help but clearly staying exactly

    > I've maintained for over 10 years. I don't recall ever receiving a donation. I am still maintaining it, but I just don't have time to add the improvements that it needs to keep up with the ecosystem (asyncio, for example). If organizations who use it got together and chipped in some non-negligible amount, I would be much more serious about keeping up with it, but $0, or $5-20/month, is just not realistic incentive to compete with other priorities in my life.

    may be a good idea.

    Even if that would not help this project then making people aware about problem in general would help.

  • sucks

    Discontinued Simple command-line script for the Ecovacs series of robot vacuums

  • It seems like you haven't quite got the concept of open source. If everybody consumes and nobody contributes, how long will that last?

    A while back I bought a cheap robot vacuum. Their scheduling feature didn't meet my needs, so I reverse-engineered the protocol and open-sourced a cron-friendly CLI tool and a library so people could do other things with it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks

    Honestly, this was a mistake on my part. It was a demanding audience of home-automation hobbyists mostly without programming skills. The company was thoroughly unhelpful. When my vacuum finally broke, I was relieved, as I had a good excuse for trying to hand off the project. Nobody stepped up, so I shut it down. I just ran out of interest in doing free work to support a company worth billions.

    I really admire the community spirit of open source But it's not sustainable if companies making their money off it keep depending on the niceness and generosity of others without giving back enough to keep them happy, healthy, productive people.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • > ohmyzsh phones home every time I open a terminal

    are you talking about the update check that by default runs once every 7 days[1], or is there something else?

    [1]: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#getting-updates

  • log4j_POC

  • > library had a bug

    That was exploited since April

    https://github.com/nice0e3/log4j_POC

    ... this 'bug' is RCE on the logging infrastructure.

    > Can you explain why you think the majority of authors/maintainers burn out?

    Please try maintaining a popular FOSS project for a few years and explaining to your wife why you neither have any money nor have any time.

  • selling-partner-api

    A PHP client library for Amazon's Selling Partner API

  • I maintain a much, much smaller PHP library[0] (~1-2k downloads/month), and I've made a few thousand dollars in sponsorships, donations, and paid improvements to the library over the past year. I don't try all that hard to solicit donations, but I do have a donate button and a request for people to sponsor the library right near the top of the README. I noticed you don't have any visible donate button -- I'm guessing if you added one, and a little blurb about why people might want to donate, you'd up your donations quite a bit.

    (Usual disclaimer, n=1, etc)

    [0] https://github.com/jlevers/selling-partner-api

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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