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by adzicg 3565 days ago
nice :) I built DbFit at a time when I was getting a lot of work helping companies with a huge investment in oracle pl-sql, but my interests moved on, and for a while it just felt I was holding the project back.

People wanted to implement new things, support new databases, I felt overprotective of the design, but didn't have enough time to bring new contributors onboard. So I just kind of gave up, and that allowed me to think about it from a completely different perspective. If I just deleted it, then I wouldn't care too much about it any more. Giving away the keys was kind of the same, but without preventing others from contributing. And it worked out great.