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Open source maintainers underpaid and going gray (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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[–] CameronDev 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

In my (very limited) experience, even getting contributions is near impossible. Lots of people like to open issues, far fewer like to work on solving them.

Add in xz, and my package will likely die with me (which is fine, its not critical, and I have a few decades left)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, maybe whoever decides to rewrite it (in Rust) can use the issue list for inspiration.

[–] CameronDev 6 points 2 months ago

Lol, its an Octoprint plugin, and I already rewrote half of it to Rust, but the other half is going to be Python as long as Octoprint is.

I'd be happy for someone to fork and/or rewrite it :)

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