What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project
9 comments
·November 25, 2025groundzeros2015
I don’t understand. It’s your project, you do what you want and nothing more.
boyter
People who give away things like this tend to be good people. As such when someone comes asking for help or new things they are inclined to help.
Your response is where it should go when things get rude, but you don't want to start there.
bitbasher
is it a gen z thing to not use any capitalization? it's frustrating to read. it feels like someone isn't trying, or perhaps trying too hard.
genter
I agree, but you might want to practice what you preach.
Lammy
it's been a thing for a long time; just pretend you're reading achewood and everyone is roast beef
soiltype
> is it a gen z thing?
no
orthodonticjake
Kinda frustratingly written by ai
knowitnone3
Don't help people who won't help themselves.
> someone opens an issue: "how do i install this?"
Honestly, this is a GitHub thing. You wouldn't get that issue on sourcehut, bitbucket or self hosted.
GitHub is the lowest common denominator for users.