Comment by ternaus

I am one of the creators and maintainers of https://albumentations.ai/.

- 12800+ stars

- 1M downloads last month, 37k per day

- Paper about the project: 1500+ citations

- Used in 18k other repositories and 317 packages.

=> People use it.

But!

- 365 open issues

- 25 pull request

that hang for years

Only one sponsor.

And this is fine. People use the result of our work, but we do not feel that we are entitled / deserve / [some other vomit words] of more support.

In the beginning, we decided that we would do it:

- only for fan

- when and how we want it

- if some user is unhappy with our commitment or decisions

=> feel free to fork.

But!

We do enjoy when people thank us, create pull requests (we do review and merge them, although it could take time), or create feature requests or bug reports.

I can see open source as a great pet project that you do for fun and to improve your skills, but unless it is an OpenCore business or another setup where maintainers are financially compensated, all whiners and complainers can go and fuck themselves.

I would not recommend maintainers of the open source software even notice them.

If working on OSS is not fun - do not do it. Life is too short for unnecessary stress.