FOSS Is Always One Maintainer From Collapsing (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by biotin7@sopuli.xyz to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I am actually looking forward to hearing from the people here. Yeah Low-effort I know.

But I think this is an important topic to discuss, considering how much of the FOSS community is kept afloat by unpaid & volunteer-labour.

I am especially looking forward to any discussions of possible solutions

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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

I want to be a maintainer and help out but I just know it'll be exhausting. I swap languages/projects all the time. I was on the DB (OLAP), architecture, GenAI and DevOps teams just this year alone. The context switching is really bad. I still would like to contribute but I'd want to pick a project that I used semi-regularly and it's hard to identify when I'm so scatter-brained :/

this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025

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