![]() In fact as an independent developer in the commercial space there’s possibly greater pressure because you may have a perceived imperative to keep everything working for your customers, while its become the norm that you can’t / don’t charge for updates. That’s just the nature of software development - its not confined to FLOSS. I say “intangible” because effectively nobody offers to pay for such “janitorial” cleanups, but the pitchforks and torches come out when a new update breaks their own workflow / usage patterns. I don’t know the Calf plugin developers, but can easily imagine that risking outrage from their long-time users to fix use-cases which don’t affect (most of) them could be quite unappetizing, even if they haven’t collectively or individually moved on to new projects. Just need regular maintenance or at least knocking out some of the major issues stopping them from being a good solid option.Īs a career FLOSS developer, with a huge pile of Python libraries for which I’m at least notionally responsible, I can testify that burnout and apathy are a thing for maintainers of long-stable FLOSS software: touching such libraries / apps at all, even to do something as seemingly simple as adding support for a new version of Python, can turn into days or weeks worth of work, often for what seems like minimal improvement or (intangible) reward. ![]()
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