Expect open source activity to ebb and flow like life
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And so you have to expect that there's ebbs and flows in the activity of an open source project. And that's, that's fine. That's to be expected.
Episode 239: Fuzzing (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:14:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Sticking around looks like life, and real lives are messy. Contributors go through busy phases, so an open source project should expect bursts of activity around a feature (like the images tag) followed by quiet. Dave says that's fine. Pushing the pedal to the floor and expecting constant output just makes people tired, and they leave.
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Episode 71: SPECS and SPACS (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:47:47 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
sometimes it looks like with a project like this, that things are stagnating. Like with comments or that kind of thing. But that's really not true. It's not nothing is stagnating, it's just that people are off building things.
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Episode 96: Foie Gras (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:13:56 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
I can imagine there's a there's a sort of maturity curve that comes along with any open source project that's long, this sort of a long term project like this.
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Episode 239: Fuzzing (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:41:44 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
and expect constant output, I think it that people will just get tired and leave and, and, and move on to other things. And I just don't want that to happen.
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