Q: Why won't you spend your free time implementing my favorite feature?
If you're not paying us, you need to convince us that your feature is so great, that it's worth giving up our free time to work on.
This is open source. Scratch thine own itch.
If you're not paying us, you need to convince us that your feature is so great, that it's worth giving up our free time to work on.
This is open source. Scratch thine own itch.
I wrote some introductory Python code 10+ years ago, for one of my classes. I put it online. I now get random college students emailing me personally to ask for help doing their homework.
I distribute some of my software for free. I've since had people demand (yes, demand) essentially hours of free support time to debug their hardware configuration for them because they don't know enough to do it themselves.
When do I get to decide what is "better" for me, rather than do things which are "better" for others?
Being lazy, I spent a weekend teaching myself HTML, and did the Web option. It was linked from the course page on the college's site.
Ten years later I was still getting random emails from people who saw it, noted the .edu domain, and assumed I was an academic expert on Hermetic cults. Thankfully, a reorganization of the college's site and course pages seems to have killed it off for good.