This resonates with me. Although a relatively small and unknown project, I’m in phase-9 for asdf version manager.

The maintainers take good care of the project and I admire the energy and consistency that maintainers like Trevor Brown have.

I try really hard to contribute sometimes by responding to issues and closing them. But that is all the energy I can spare for the project.

At this point I would rather focus on anything that pays money than work on something purely for the sake of open source.

What I wish I knew 12yrs ago:

* Money is not a bad thing to take/have. * Irrespective of whether projects are opensource or paid, they need to be sustainable.