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The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Alice "psykose" who is easily responsible for the highest number of commits per author over the past year has decided to step down from maintaining her packages.

She hasn't decided what to do next but likely "catch up on a year of sleep." She doesn't believe that this will ultimately impact Alpine Linux itself but hopes that others will pick-up what's needed to keep on going with the package maintenance.

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[–] negativenull@negativenull.com 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real life example of: https://xkcd.com/2347/

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 18 points 1 year ago

I get where she's coming from because burnout can be a real thing. I hope Alice gets rest and respite.

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

With her being responsible for about half of all commits for this system, she basically is Alpine Linux. Well, or was.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that workload is excessive. I'm glad she decided to take care of herself. "All or nothing" burns you out real quick.

[–] jmbmkn@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it an unavoidable situation that projects that are run by passionate individuals will burn those people out? Or is their more projects can do to ask those that contribute the most to slow down and not put the work before themselves?

[–] kitsastro@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@jmbmkn
passion is the basis of open source. one day i hope that people that have passion will be more cherished by the world than they are currently.
@pnutzh4x0r @linux

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