Comment by BrandoElFollito
7 hours ago
This was my exact comment, thanks.
It is a very good piece of work, and extensible with JS (I just tried that). I have a fear about the future because the dev is alone, and responds alone in the discussions. He is also quite, how to say, "rough" in the interactions, which I can completely understand, being the one pulled around by everyone.
This is a very, very good piece of work when you need to decorrelate the back from the front
Ah yes, the joy of maintaining open source software. I have seen many devs burn out over the requests made of them.
I didn't know it was just one maintainer. That can both be a good thing for keeping the product focused, but it is also worrying, as that's a single point of failure. Anything could happen and then the whole project might fall into disrepair.
That factor alone would make me weary of overly relying on Pocketbase. I would hope that if he runs out of time, the project could be handed over to the community, but often the problem is then that we end up with 50 forks, all at different stages of development. I wonder what the best solution to this issue is.
I have some open source I maintain, fortunately, it stays very niche so I am not overwhelmed. But I know the pain.
What you are saying about forks is very true. Some very good ideas were started, then semi-abandonned on the way and they ended up with incompatible forks, and finally all of this collapsed.
I have no idea what the correct model could be.