The patience and resilience this man must have. I would have left Foss development way earlier if I was in his place.
He has every right to just deprecate or remove the package from npm and give everyone the middle finger.
He posted that classic XKCD comic about critical infrastructure.
So while thousands of principal engineers at companies around the world hold meetings today on what to do about this critical bus factor issue, I'm going to do something else.
I'm going to go outside, drop off some library books (i don 't always finish them, that's ok), and wonder what critical infrastructure component exists in my life that I'm responsible for. Is it a person? A pet? A future idea?
Or who's supporting me? The parents and all the rest.
I'm not naive about what happens in OSS projects. And I wouldn't want to be this critical in a project, but this can be a message of future hope even if the world is dark right now.
I dont know the immediate solution. Maybe the engineers scrambling today can slowly remove this stress bomb over the next couple months.
Yeah, I have to respect how hard he sticked to his conviction.
I truly hope that companies, especially bigger ones, show more willingness to donate some money to FOSS projects that they use.
Iw ould would still be cheaper than to buy some expensive enterprise solution, and idk maybe they can write it off as donations on their taxes and get some good PR.
