This is actually going to be a big challenge of leading the Asahi Linux project. As a project maintainer, you need to strike a careful balance. It's easy to end up an asshole on one end, or completely burned out on the other. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25757398 …
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I have experienced both sides in different contexts. When I was one of the big public faces of the Wii homebrew community, I tended to have strong opinions, and even then I ended up very burned out after a few years.
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In that case, it was largely caused due to the majority of my users having values that directly contradicted my own (let's face it, most users installed HBC to use piracy tools), combined with the young gamer demographic. You can imagine how well that went.
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But in FOSS communities it's common to hear the "maintainers do not owe you anything, fork it if you don't like it" line, and I also strongly disagree with that. Volunteer maintainers and devs do not owe you solutions, but they do owe you basic respect and honesty.
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I have seen projects shoot themselves in the foot because they were too aggressive in their communications policies, and ended up shipping lower quality software and not solving bugs due to not paying enough attention to their own users.
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Of course, I'm also getting paid to work on Asahi Linux, so I can't use that argument verbatim even if I wanted to :) We'll see how it turns out, and I'll do my best to keep things on track without getting burned out.
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