[jeandejean]

It's a bit annoying to go through that post without knowing the context of why he's so pissed... Honestly, Open Source is a great source of frustration exactly because they're managed by benevolent dictators that are more often the latter while forgetting the former.

Yeah sure that's their piece of code and you're free to fork if you don't like it, but why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community? An Open Source project without the community is just futile.

[bdefore]

> why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community?

one reason: providing code that others may learn or benefit from even while you recognize that you won't have time to manage a community.

[jeandejean]

I definitely understand there are reasons outside of that, but you should be ready (and happy) for a community to build up on your release of interesting Open Source software.

[bdefore]

it's quite a thrill! until the months fly by and you get a particular kind of tone on an issue opened on your repository for a thing you can't devote time to anymore. and that burn can scar.