Volunteering to be the maintainer

Posted Apr 3, 2024 11:51 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Volunteering to be the maintainer by NYKevin
Parent article: Free software's not-so-eXZellent adventure

> Ideally, people complaining about a lack of activity would be disregarded as background noise

People (*especially* reasonable people) are notoriously bad at ignoring background noise, for good evolutionary reasons – which unfortunately are counter-productive in a world where social accountability doesn't apply to sock puppets.