Sure. I'm not making any value judgments. In this dichotomy, I prefer the community view. But doesn't necessarily address sustainability.
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Interesting. I agree with the for-profit corporation point. I find the maintainer view to be fundamentally incompatible with sustainability.
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Me too, the maintainer view is like a worst case scenario of "sunk cost fallacy." As adoption increases the situation can only get worse.
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to be honest, I mostly see my job as a maintainer as "chaos management" - keep the exponentially growing community productive.
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the more flexibility you have to spend on pure community work the more compelled you are to grease the squeaky wheels nobody else can.
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yeah. My biggest mistakes on OSS have been under-investing in community empowerment. No amount of community empowerment is too much ime.
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mine is similar but basically the same, not realizing when i needed to intervene to empower people to take on leadership.
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I find that setting up 'quests' where maintainers write down the details of doing some small-but-annoying task pays massive dividends.
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that's a very good idea, i'm going to steal that :)
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I call them "quest issues" https://www.google.com/search?q=ember+quest+issue&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS725US726&oq=ember+quest+issue&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59j69i60l3j69i65.1656j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 … the original: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/13127 … ; one from Rust: http://www.jonathanturner.org/2016/08/helping-out-with-rust-errors.html …
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the key is finding issues that are outside the scope of automation, but which people think "the community can't do" because of some 1/
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some quality control that, if you think about it, can be written down. Writing it down is good anyway, and the dividends are huge. 2/2
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