Comment by marcus_holmes
3 months ago
It's a rare developer (or human for that matter) who can just shrug and say "fork off" when asked for help with their library.
3 months ago
It's a rare developer (or human for that matter) who can just shrug and say "fork off" when asked for help with their library.
It really depends. If it's the occasional request and I can bang out a solution in 30 minutes, I'll help. But I'll also weigh how much maintenance burden it'll be going forward. And if I won't do it myself, I'd always give some quick pointers.
Maintenance demands (your library X doesn't work with Python Y, please maintain another version for me) I'd shrug off. Wait for me, pay me, or fix it yourself.
It would be healthy that it becomes more common, in fact the privately-owned public garden model of the Valetudo project [1] is the sanest way for FOSS maintainers to look at their projects.
[1]: https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo#valetudo-is-a-garden