New blog post on user support frustration, its causes, and how we could build the "infrastructure of equanimity" in #opensource, including ideas for potential cross-project tools & practices.

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/

Shout-outs to @davidism, Heidi Waterhouse, @offby1, @jacob, Nicole Harris, @bernard, + @georgia for work & conversations that I built on in this piece.

#maintainer #maintainership #FLOSS #UX #UserExperience #sustainability #ProjectManagement #Python #PythonPackaging #burnout

If you maintain #OpenSource software, or any public good, really, you owe it to yourself to read this post about (among other things) #Maintainership and tools by @brainwane: https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/

Yup. Still burned out af. Opened up my GH notifications tab and: wow I super don't want to deal with any of this shit 😖

Gonna go work on stuff that makes me happy instead, like exploring a Paramiko auth overhaul, and fixing up my development environment. #SorryNotSorry #maintainership #OSS #OpenSource

The person who was setting up a conference session to discuss #Linux maintainer overwork and ways to address it couldn’t attend due to… burnout:
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-xfs/20220426024331.GR17025@magnolia/

I can very much relate to the account of what their daily life looks like.

#FreeSoftware #maintainership

@freemo #introductions

I am interested in:

#programming
#foss #opensource #privacy #wikipedia #decentralization #maintainership #testing #python #rust #science #rationality #logic #hardware #transhumanism

These are my released #Haskell #packages:
https://hackage.haskell.org/user/ClaudeHeilandAllen

These now work with #GHC 8.8.1:
- bitwise
- bowntz
- butterflies
- complex-generic
- gearbox
- gl-capture
- hgmp
- long-double
- memo-sqlite
- pnm
- qd
- qd-vec
- ruff
- snowglobe

These don't work with GHC 8.8.1 yet (mostly because their dependencies haven't been updated yet):
- exp-extended
- gruff
- gulcii
- hp2pretty
- prof2pretty
- rounded
- wedged

Unreleased #et is blocked on `rounded`, which is blocked on `singletons` seeming to need `Cabal-2.4.1.0` which does not compile with `ghc-8.8.1` due to `Monad.fail` being removed.

The rest of the packages in the #hackage link's listing are mostly #abandonware, let me know if you want to #takeover #maintainership.