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Intel Survey Finds Maintainer Burnout & Documentation Top Open-Source Challenges (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean, that's exactly the same set of problems faced by closed source software. I guess one potential difference is that you can hire new devs to take over if it's successful enough. But both crappy documentation and team burnout have killed lots and lots of internal projects at places I've worked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's the horror of scientific software I'll share here. ~~Developers are fired~~ The contract expires every 2 years and users keep using the code if it's successful. Some projects are closed source, even...

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