Open-source feels like work

For a given open-source software project, there will always be requests for features. There will always be bugs to fix. The question is, will there always be a developer for implementing features and bug-fixes?

I contributed to Tatoeba and Gogs.

When I look at the pending feature requests for Tatoeba, it feels like work. Not fun. So I told the core developer, Trang, that I was going away from Tatoeba. (S)he was cool about it.

“I’ll simply move you to the ‘Inactive’ Github team if you don’t come back,” she said on the Gitter chat.

It was cool to see my code create an impact on the Tatoeba website.

But contributing to Tatoeba is not fun. Not anymore. The Thais have an expression for it: mai sanuk.

And that’s how I left Tatoeba development.