Taking a week off open-source support

For the past 14 years, I have provided open-source software support every single day. That is around half my life. To give myself a break, and to honestly just reset my brain, I’ve decided to give myself a one week break from it. That might not sound like much, or a challenge, but I’ve been noticing signs of it being a problem for a fair while now. So, this is my attempt at detoxing myself from providing support for open-source software projects. Why I felt this was necessaryWhile writing my recent 10 year Q&A article, something I noticed about myself is the way I kept referring to WorldEdit as a community obligation. While I feel to an extent that’s a natural part of being a maintainer of a large open-source software project, I feel the dynamic has shifted when it came to the support side. I feel I also touched on this in my risks of modding series, where I focused mostly on the risks of the interpersonal labour side of software maintenance.At some point, likely over a decade ago,…

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