onelson, (edited )
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I have this open source thing I wrote some years ago, mostly for learning, but also because my employer at the time had a need I could fill if I could manage to build it.

Today, years later, I have not given much thought to it, but suddenly I find people opening PRs to contribute to it. I don't know how to politely say, "hey - I don't have the context to properly review any of this." It's a bunch of unsafe rust too, being mostly FFI.

onelson,
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My plan right now is to quietly ignore activity on the repo and eventually someone will either fork it or use something else

onelson,
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I have to keep reminding myself I don't owe anyone anything

SnoopJ,
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@onelson bearing in mind that you also don't owe me an answer to this question…

is there specific stuff that puts you off announcing "I'm not really working on this anymore and not able to" publicly?

onelson,
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@SnoopJ I might change my mind later

onelson,
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@SnoopJ I think the "fork or use something different" options work whether I say anything or not.

SnoopJ,
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@onelson yea the only thing in the margin is the timeout between now and when the collective downstream reaches that decision point (and, as you say, you don't owe them anything, even that time)

SnoopJ,
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@onelson especially since it's easy to politely ask "hey is this still maintained"

onelson,
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@SnoopJ it's not Not maintained, is what I'd say. Unhelpful, but true.

SnoopJ,
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@onelson eepy mode development

onelson,
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@SnoopJ I'll just tell them all available cycles are for game dev and see how they like it

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