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As an open-source developer and maintainer (and as someone about to open-source another project) and tester too, you're welcome :)
I enjoy writing and maintaining open-source, it's fun for others to be able to download and play around with the sources.
Being a maintainer / project owner is not always fun, but it's rewarding in a sense that you're able to offer something useful to others.
I don't like providing free support via github issues. And that's usually what happens, you don't get many developers that put care into bug reports. Instead it's mostly users that don't really understand, sometimes entitled, sometimes really nice but completely wrong.
However I really appreciate those that do care or at least follow the template and make an effort.
I see issues as a form of a necessity to help the software improve, but I've chosen to no longer pay too much attention to it because it's just draining.
Support is draining, and I respect everyone who does it, those who provide support for free even moreso.
Oh that's awesome! What stuff have you been involved in? Anything you'd like to share? 🙃
You can check my GitHub https://github.com/ipkpjersi it should have my projects I have contributed to and maintain
Will take a look
Edit: I can't understand shit but clearly it's fun stuff 😄