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Developer shares challenges of open-source library maintenance

A software developer shared their experience maintaining an open-source library, highlighting the challenges and reasons why maintainers often become unresponsive. The developer built an internal utility a year ago, open-sourced it, and was surprised by its popularity, which led to a significant influx of issues and requests. AI

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Developer shares challenges of open-source library maintenance

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    🤖 Started maintaining a small library at work and now I genuinely understand why maintainers go quiet Built a little internal utility about a year ago, open sou

    🤖 Started maintaining a small library at work and now I genuinely understand why maintainers go quiet Built a little internal utility about a year ago, open sourced it because why not, figured maybe 10 people would find it useful. It slowly picked up a few hundred stars and then …