@benbrown well, I stand corrected. The field is wide open! Although this Ben Brown (blogger) fellow sounds interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Brown

@benbrown so, there *has* to be some kind of shoe or tap dance step or bowler hat called a "Ben Brown" already?

@dneary

What kind of fruit do you imagine davenearia would be?

@maj

@james I would buy that cereal

Which of these new kinds of food would you want named after you?

#EvanPoll #poll

@ted so, what are the consequences of not putting any time into things?

Is getting paid the only reason people do things?

Why do developers make and maintain Open Source software, anyway?

Could they have different goals? How much time should they put into the project to achieve those different goals?

@malwareminigun the question is, how much is "very little"?

@joergi @dannycolin @preinheimer I know that `npm` has a feature where you can mark a package as deprecated or unmaintained. I think there are other systems for doing this.

@tony why do they want to? At least in part for it to be useful, for at least some developers, right?

@larsmb @tony it's not my fault that you didn't think about the question very hard.

Is your software Open Source?

@shtrom so, if it's not because they owe somebody something, why do volunteer maintainers do the work in the first place? And if they do have a goal, how much time do they have to put in to reach it? Are there different amounts of time for different goals?

@larsmb

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#should

@tony so, how much time do you think it takes for maintainers to keep software in a state where it still works for you?

@troglobit @preinheimer @joergi because I like thinking about hard topics. You don't have to, though!

@troglobit @joergi would you continue to use software that has unpatched security alerts?

@larsmb and you'll keep using their unmaintained software, full of known security bugs, regardless?

@malwareminigun so, you'll keep using the software, no matter if there are outstanding security alerts, dependency EOL, untriaged issues? Just as long as the maintainers are happy?

@tony So, you're happy using unmaintained or under-maintained software?

There's no minimum amount of time you expect maintainers to put in -- even on security issues, dependency or platform EOL, all that stuff?

You're going to use it regardless?

@preinheimer @joergi so, there's no minimum amount of time where you'd worry that the project is unmaintained or under-maintained?

How much time per month should an unpaid volunteer maintainer dedicate to an Open Source project?

#EvanPoll #poll